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Head rhyme Moderate

Head rhyme has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse

"around the rock the ragged rascal ran"

2

The use of alliteration at the beginning of stressed syllables

See Also
syllable beginning alliteration
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
rhyme
Rhyming Words
ayme cyme zyme tyme syme lyme chyme azyme rhyme gryme glyme thyme bleyme enzyme abzyme exozyme isozyme synzyme diglyme unrhyme
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