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Masculine rhyme

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, masculine rhyme means: Rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable of the rhyming words.

In Turkish: eril uyak, son vurgulu hecede uyak

How it is used

Use as a technical sound label, not a statement about gender or the speaker's identity.

Example sentences

  1. The masculine rhyme of 'night' and 'light' gives the couplet a crisp ending.

    Both words end directly on the stressed rhyming sound.

  2. The translator chose masculine rhyme to preserve the original's emphatic final beats.

    The choice concerns stress and closure rather than subject matter.

Common collocations

  • use masculine rhyme
  • a masculine rhyme ending
  • rhymeThe repetition of the same or similar sounds at the ends of words, especially at the ends of lines in a poem, as in 'night' and 'light'.
  • coupletA pair of consecutive lines of poetry, usually of the same length and rhyming with each other, that form a unit of meaning.

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