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An imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.

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ayme cyme zyme tyme syme lyme chyme azyme rhyme gryme glyme thyme bleyme enzyme abzyme exozyme isozyme synzyme diglyme unrhyme
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