Quasi-rhyme

"Quasi-rhyme" in a Sentence (5 examples)

An oldish parishioner of my own gave me many years ago the quasi rhyme, or its rags and tatters.

A similar pattern, mingling elements of alliteration, assonance, quasi-rhyme, and meaningful allusion ingeniously is seen in the following example.

Perhaps this quasi-rhyme royal stanza right at the end of a quasi-ballade is a nose-thumbing gesture at Chaucher's French contemporaries and the oppressive formal convention they represent;

but they make significant use of rhyme, imperfect rhyme, pararhyme, quasi-rhyme between identical words, rhyme between the end of a line and the inside of a line, rhyme between stressed and unstressed syllables.

Hall referred to these as false rhymes, but I prefer the label quasi-rhymes.

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