leoninerhyme

leoninerhyme
leonine rhyme n.
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).
  [Probably after Leo or Leonius, name of an unknown medieval poet.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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