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Definition of Consonant rhyme
1. Noun. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consonant Rhyme
Literary usage of Consonant rhyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1862)
"... or vowel rhyme, is to ears that can catch a consonant rhyme onlv. ... and can
detect the alternate vowel rhyme as we should catch the consonant rhyme. ..."
2. The Prose of Edward Rowland Sill: With an Introduction Comprising Some by Edward Rowland Sill (1900)
"There are three sets of rhymes, in reality: the initial, or consonant rhyme (or
alliteration) ; the medial rhyme, or chime of the vowels in the interior of ..."
3. The Musical Basis of Verse: A Scientific Study of the Principles of Poetic by Julia Parker Dabney (1901)
"In English, in order to have rhyme, it is necessary to have absolute coincidence
of the terminal consonant Rhyme sounds. We also require coincidence of ..."
4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1823)
"... the full or consonant rhyme. to the age of different compositions modern date
compared with the can- proofs he gives in favour of antiquity, ..."
5. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Edda Sæmunder, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"... sound-echo used in later Northern metres : full-rhyme, which may be single, '
take ' and ' bake,' or double, ' taking ' and ' baking ;' consonant-rhyme ..."
6. Periods of European Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"These rules, though nowise severe, are not rigidly followed. Not infrequently
the assonant rhyme falls into the full or consonant rhyme, while the ..."
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