stave-rhyme

plural stave-rhymes · alternative stave rhyme · alternative staff-rhyme · alternative staff rhyme

1. countableusuallyA (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.

   The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like "start, stop".

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   It is better to retain it in this line, as it is one of the 3 stave-rhymes.

   1860, George Stephens, Two leaves of king Waldere's lay, a hitherto unknown Old-English epic, page 72

   c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge

   2001, Altaic affinities: proceedings of the 40th meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Provo, Utah (1997), page 268

   The colophon penned in flowery style with stave-rhymes relates that the words of the Zaya Pandita's translation were written […]

   2005, György Kara, Books of the Mongolian nomads: more than eight centuries of writing Mongolian, page 277

   Synonyms: alliteration

2. uncountableusuallyThis kind of rhyme.

   The poem exhibits stave-rhyme.

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   Our ancestors grounded their verse on stave-rhyme and accent […]

   1860, George Stephens, Two leaves of king Waldere's lay, a hitherto unknown Old-English epic, page 22

   Now, of the Thornhill fragments, those I have numbered VII. give us part of an epitaph in stave-rhyme, conceived on the same plan as those at Dewsbury and Falstone, but with a remarkable variation; […]

   1877, Daniel Henry Haigh, “On Runic Inscriptions Discovered at Thornhill”, in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 4, page 420

   c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge

   2001, Altaic affinities: proceedings of the 40th meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Provo, Utah (1997), page 268

present singular third person stave-rhymes · participle present stave-rhyming · participle past stave-rhymed · past stave-rhymed · alternative stave rhyme · alternative staff-rhyme · alternative staff rhyme

1. To exhibit this kind of rhyme.

   To find other Old High German parallels, it is necessary to include those genres which are not composed in stave-rhyming verse.

   2002, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, editors, New insights in Germanic linguistics III, page 120

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   Richard Kienast, in a study of the prose style of the Old High German Isidor translation, remarked that the relics of elevated celebratory composition, as the ‘stave-rhyming formulas’ were described, need to be treated.

   1995, John M. Jeep, Alliterating word-pairs in Old High German, page 35

   Synonyms: alliterate