quasi-rhyme

plural quasi-rhymes · alternative quasirhyme

1. uncommonuncountableusuallySomewhat of a rhyme.

   Hall referred to these as false rhymes, but I prefer the label quasi-rhymes.

   2024, Paul R. Nail, Ph.D., A Psychological Biography of Hiram "Hank" Williams - Much More to His Story, Volume II, page 481

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   An oldish parishioner of my own gave me many years ago the quasi rhyme, or its rags and tatters.

   1904, W. K. Morton (publisher), Lincolnshire Notes and Queries - Volume 7, page 213

   A similar pattern, mingling elements of alliteration, assonance, quasi-rhyme, and meaningful allusion ingeniously is seen in the following example.

   1967, Roman Jakobson (contributor), To Honor Roman Jakobson - Essays on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 11 October 1966 · Issue 31, page 683

   Perhaps this quasi-rhyme royal stanza right at the end of a quasi-ballade is a nose-thumbing gesture at Chaucher's French contemporaries and the oppressive formal convention they represent;

   2006, Seth Lerer, The Yale Companion to Chaucer, page 202

   but they make significant use of rhyme, imperfect rhyme, pararhyme, quasi-rhyme between identical words, rhyme between the end of a line and the inside of a line, rhyme between stressed and unstressed syllables.

   2016, Antonios Rengakos, Evina Sistakou, Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram, page 129