Monorhyme

Monorhyme is a passage, stanza, or entire poem in which all lines have the same end rhyme.^[1] The term "monorhyme" describes the use of one (mono) type of repetitious sound (rhyme). This is common in Arabic, Latin and Welsh work,^[2] such as The Book of One Thousand and One Nights,^{[citation needed]} e.g., qasida and its derivative kafi.

Some styles of monorhyme use the end of a poem's line to utilize this poetic tool. The Persian ghazal poetry style places the monorhyme before the refrain in a line.^{[citation needed]} This is seen in the poem "Even the Rain" by Agha Shahid Ali:

"What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain?

But he has bought grief's lottery, bought even the rain."

The monorhyme knot is introduced before the line’s refrain or pause. The corresponding rhyme bought is used in the next line. Although these are not the last words of the lines in the poem, monorhyme is incorporated in identical rhyme schemes in each line.

^ Greene, Roland, ed. (24 August 2017). "Monorhyme". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780190681173.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6 – via Oxford Reference.
^ "Monorhyme – literature". Encyclopedia Britannica. 1 September 1999. Retrieved 7 January 2023.

[1] Greene, Roland, ed. (24 August 2017). "Monorhyme". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780190681173.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6 – via Oxford Reference.

[2] "Monorhyme – literature". Encyclopedia Britannica. 1 September 1999. Retrieved 7 January 2023.

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