Half rhyme is a close but incomplete rhyme in which words echo each other through similar sounds rather than a full end rhyme. The match may come from repeated consonants, repeated vowel sounds, or both, but the stressed ending does not line up exactly. Poets use half rhyme to create a subtler, less sing-song sound than perfect rhyme.
Half rhyme is also called slant rhyme, near rhyme, or imperfect rhyme.
Example
The leaves move soft beneath the moonlit pines,
And winter waits in folded, quiet time.
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