MASCULINE RHYME Definition & Meaning

masculine rhyme

noun

Prosody.

a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.

masculine rhyme

noun

prosody a rhyme between stressed monosyllables or between the final stressed syllables of polysyllabic words Compare feminine rhyme
collect, direct
book, cook

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of masculine rhyme¹

First recorded in 1575–85

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Example Sentences

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The stanza is much the same, except that there is a much more general tendency to arrange the first couplet in single masculine rhyme and the second in feminine, while the second half of the fourth line is curiously prolonged to either ten or eleven syllables.

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Lastly, even the very rhyme itself, the Italian cannot put in the last syllable, by the French named the masculine rhyme, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the female, or the next before that, which the Italians termed Sdrucciola.

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Lastly, even the very rhyme itself the Italian cannot put in the last syllable, by the French named the masculine rhyme, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the female; or the next before that, which the Italian calls "sdrucciola:" the example of the former is, "buono," "suono;" of the sdrucciola is, "femina," "semina."

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The second half of each line ends in a masculine rhyme.

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