masculine rhyme


masculine rhyme

n. A rhyme made on a single stressed syllable, as in reply/deny.

masculine rhyme

n (Poetry) prosody a rhyme between stressed monosyllables or between the final stressed syllables of polysyllabic words: book, cook; collect, direct. Compare feminine rhyme

mas′culine rhyme′


n. a rhyme having a stressed final syllable, as disdain, complain. [1575–85]