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/steɪv.ɹaɪm/ · noun
(countable) A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel..
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; […]
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.
Use stave-rhyme when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stave-rhyme means (countable) A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel..
Common synonyms include alliteration, alliterate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like "start, stop".
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