Pararhyme

Pararhyme

Pararhyme, also known as "partial" or "imperfect rhyme" is a term devised by the poet Edmund Blunden to describe a near rhyme in which the consonants in two words are the same, but the vowels are different. It is distinguished from half rhyme in that all the consonants should match rather than just the final ones.

Pararhyme is sometimes referred to as "double consonance". It is a particular feature of the poetry of Wilfred Owen; see, for example "".

Examples

* "hall/hell"
* "red/rid"
* "pack/pick"

See also

* assonance
* consonance
* half rhyme


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