stave rhyme

A form of stave-rhyme — A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.

Meanings

nounstave rhyme (plural stave rhymes)

plural stave rhymes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of stave-rhyme.

    His lyrical narrative teems with short broken sentences often repeated in Hebrew parallelisms, epizeuxes and anaphora, exclamations, sudden transitions, alliterations and even stave rhymes, […]

    1989, Rolf P. Lessenich, Aspects of English preromanticism, page 179
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