monorhyme
Americannoun
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a poem or stanza in which all the lines rhyme with each other.
Etymology
Origin of monorhyme
Example Sentences
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To surmount the difficulties of the monorhyme demands great technical skill even in a language of which the peculiar formation renders the supply of rhymes extraordinarily abundant.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
I have not thought it necessary to preserve the monorhyme.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
As the Arabs ignore blank verse, when we come upon a rhymeless couplet we know that it is an extract from a longer composition in monorhyme.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Not a word of praise for mastering the prodigious difficulties of the monorhyme!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
I allude especially to the monorhyme, Rim continuat or tirade monorime, whose monotonous simplicity was preferred by the Troubadours for threnodies.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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