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stave_rhyme

stave rhyme

See also: stave-rhyme

English

Noun

stave rhyme (plural stave rhymes)

  1. Alternative form of stave-rhyme
    • 1989, Rolf P. Lessenich, Aspects of English preromanticism, page 179:
      His lyrical narrative teems with short broken sentences often repeated in Hebrew parallelisms, epizeuxes and anaphora, exclamations, sudden transitions, alliterations and even stave rhymes, []