feminine rhyme

noun

A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).

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Meanings

nounfeminine rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural feminine rhymes)

plural feminine rhymes

  1. countableuncountableA disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).

    She even composes a poem in honour of her school — seven stanzas so limp with feminine rhymes as to be almost boneless.

    2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 557
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “feminine rhyme,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feminine%20rhyme.

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