stave-rhyme

noun
/steɪv.ɹaɪm/

Etymology

Most likely a calque of a Germanic term, such as German Stabreim or Danish stavrim.

Definitions

  1. A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant,…

    A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.

    • The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like "start, stop".
    • It is better to retain it in this line, as it is one of the 3 stave-rhymes.
    • c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge
  2. This kind of rhyme.

    • The poem exhibits stave-rhyme.
    • Our ancestors grounded their verse on stave-rhyme and accent […]
    • Now, of the Thornhill fragments, those I have numbered VII. give us part of an epitaph in stave-rhyme, conceived on the same plan as those at Dewsbury and Falstone, but with a remarkable variation; […]
  3. To exhibit this kind of rhyme.

    • Richard Kienast, in a study of the prose style of the Old High German Isidor translation, remarked that the relics of elevated celebratory composition, as the ‘stave-rhyming formulas’ were described, need to be treated.
    • To find other Old High German parallels, it is necessary to include those genres which are not composed in stave-rhyming verse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stave-rhyme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA