half-rhyme

Example Sentences

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It was beginning with the idea of voice – of giving Aberfan a voice – that led me towards the style of the piece, a form of verse drama created from first person accounts; a series of rhythmically driven dramatic monologues underpinned by internal and line-end rhyme and half-rhyme.

From The Guardian

To exorcise the associations of that jarring half-rhyme, Cameron had recourse to the whole rhetorical tool kit—anaphora, antithesis, tricolon, and the rest.

From The New Yorker

Dele Alli is 18, and as well as being a sonically delicious half-rhyme, is also a midfielder.

From The Guardian

A soft half-rhyme which nevertheless highlights the very different sounds and near-opposite meanings of "ash" and "flesh" hints at the sensuous sweetness of what has gone.

From The Guardian