leonine verse
nounDefinition of leonine verse
1
: Latin verse in which the last word in the line rhymes with the word just before the middle caesura (as in “gloria factorum temere conceditus horum”)
2
: English verse in which the end of the line rhymes with a sound occurring near the middle of the line (as in Tennyson's “the long light shakes across the lakes”)
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