BROKEN RHYME


Meaning of BROKEN RHYME in English

noun

1. : rhyme in which one of the rhyming elements is divided by the break or by a pause between two words (as in Lord Byron's rhyming “… Attic; all …” with “mathematical”)

2. : rhyme involving division of a word by the break between two lines in order to end a line with a rhyme provided by the first part of the word (as in G. M. Hopkins's dividing king- / dom to rhyme king- with wing )

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