noun
Etymology: probably from French léonin, from Middle French, from Old French
1. : Latin verse in which the last word in the line rhymes with the word just before the middle caesura (as in “gloria factorum temere conceditus horum”)
2. : English verse in which the end of the line rhymes with a sound occurring near the middle of the line (as in Tennyson's “the long light shakes across the lakes”)