perfect rhyme

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perfect rhyme

noun perfect rhymes

  1. uncountable A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.

    Similar: full rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhyme · Opposite: imperfect rhyme, half rhyme, quasi-rhyme, near rhyme, internal rhyme

  2. countable An instance of this form of rhyme.

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@misc{perfect_rhyme_2026,
  title = {perfect rhyme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/perfect%20rhyme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}