perfect rhyme

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perfect rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural perfect rhymes)

A (form of) rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound. (Contrast with half rhyme.)
Synonyms: full rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhyme
Hypernym: rhyme
Coordinate terms: half rhyme, internal rhyme

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You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme... For heavier things. John Mayer

As stated above, in a perfect rhyme the last stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical in both words. Source: Internet

Furthermore, "for perfect rhyme a palatalized consonant may be balanced only by a palatalized consonant and a velarized consonant by a velarized one." Source: Internet

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