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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A form of internal rhyme in which the word preceding the caesura rhymes with the final word in the line, as in: "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams” ( Edgar Allan Poe).

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  1. Probably after Leo or Leonius, name of an unknown medieval poet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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