half rhymes

A form of half rhyme — A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of half rhyme
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