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The Hudibrastic relies upon feminine rhyme for its comedy, and limericks will often employ outlandish feminine rhymes for their humor. Irish satirist Jonathan Swift used many feminine rhymes in his poetry. Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" employs multiple feminine rhymes as internal rhymes throughout. An example is the following:
First and third lines rhyme at the end, second and fourth lines are repeated verbatim. First and third lines have a feminine rhyme and the second and fourth lines have a masculine rhyme. A 1 abA 2 A 1 abA 2 – Two stanzas, where the first lines of both stanzas are exactly the same, and the last lines of both stanzas are the same. The second ...
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In Slovenia the sonnet became a national verse form, using iambic pentameter with feminine rhymes, based both on the Italian endecasillabo and German iambic pentameter. [159] The greatest Slovenian poet, France Prešeren , [ 160 ] wrote several sonnet sequences from 1831 onwards and is particularly known for his crown of sonnets , Sonetni venec ...
Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.
double, also known as feminine: a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (picky, tricky) dactylic: a rhyme in which the stress is on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable (amorous, glamorous) Feminine and dactylic rhymes may also be realized as compound (or mosaic) rhymes (poet, know it).
The definition in The Rapper's Handbook is also "multies are phrases in which more than one syllable rhymes". So those sources define feminine rhyme as just part of the broader multisyllabic rhyme definition - feminine rhymes are 2-3 syllables long, and multisyllabic rhymes are 2 or more syllables long.
Perfect rhyme (also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [1] or true rhyme) is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [2] [3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words kit and bit form a perfect rhyme, as do spaghetti and already. [4] [5]