Definition of leonine rhyme

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leonine rhyme

NOUN:

A form of internal rhyme in which the word preceding the caesura rhymes with the final word in the line, as in: "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams" (Edgar Allan Poe).

ETYMOLOGY:
Probably after Leo or Leonius , name of an unknown medieval poet

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