leonine verse

leonine verse
a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.

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      Latin or French verse in which the last word in the line rhymes with the word just before the caesura (as in “gloria factorum temere conceditus horum”). Such rhymes were already referred to as rime leonine in the anonymous 12th-century romance Guillaume d'Angleterre. A later tradition imputes their invention to a 12th-century Parisian canon and Latin poet named Leonius or Leoninus, but leonine may simply refer to their supposed preeminence over other verse forms. The term leonine verse also refers to English verse in which the end of the line rhymes with a sound occurring near the middle of the line (as in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's “the long light shakes across the lakes”). See also internal rhyme.

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