broken rhyme

broken rhyme

      a rhyme in which one of the rhyming elements is actually two words (i.e., “gutteral” with “sputter all”). A broken rhyme may also involve a division of a word by the break between two lines in order to end a line with a rhyme provided by the first part of the word, as in the second stanza of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Hopkins, Gerard Manley)'s untitled poem that begins “No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief”:

My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing-
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked ‘No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.

      Edward Lear (Lear, Edward) provides another example in stanza 6 of “How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear”:

When he walks in a waterproof white,
The children run after him so!
Calling out, He's come out in his night-
gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!

* * *


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