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.
Citation Information
Article Title:
mosaic rhyme
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
18 October 1999
Access Date:
February 23, 2025