mosaic rhyme

mosaic rhyme

      a type of multiple rhyme in which a single multisyllabic word is made to rhyme with two or more words, as in the end rhymes of the following two lines from W.S. Gilbert's song “The Modern Major-General”:

About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With interesting facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

* * *


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