Stave-rhyme

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

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

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

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

The poem exhibits stave-rhyme.

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

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; […]

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

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.

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