Internal Rhyme

Internal rhyme is rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry, or between words inside nearby lines, rather than only at the line endings. It often links a line's middle and ending sounds, or two sounds within the same line, helping create musicality, momentum, or emphasis.

Poets use internal rhyme to make a poem feel more fluid and to draw attention to particular words or phrases.

Example

The moon lit the road with a silver glow,
I wandered slower where the cold winds blow.

Here, glow and blow create internal rhyme within the poem's lines.

Related Definitions

[n] a rhyme between words in the same line

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