end rhyme

end rhyme
rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry.

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poetry
      in poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses, as in stanza one of Robert Frost's “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”:

Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

      End rhyme is the most common type of rhyme in English poetry. Compare beginning rhyme; internal rhyme.

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