Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Feminine Rhyme

Also called� double rhyme� in poetry, a rhyme involving two syllables (as in motion and ocean or willow and billow). The term feminine rhyme is also sometimes applied to triple rhymes, or rhymes involving three syllables (such as exciting and inviting). Robert Browning alternates feminine and masculine rhymes in his �Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister�: Gr-r-r there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water

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