Feminine rhyme
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A feminine rhyme is a rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines, in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed.
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[edit] Feminine rhyme in poetry
[edit] French
In French verse, a feminine rhyme is one in which the final syllable is a "silent" e, even if the word is masculine. In classical French poetry, two feminine rhymes cannot occur in succession.
[edit] Feminine rhyme in music
[edit] Hip hop
In hip hop music, especially since the 1990s, the use of feminine rhyme in rapping (often referred to by the colloquial terms "multis" or "multirhymes" — a contraction of "multisyllabic rhymes") is considered a sign of technical skill, and rap artists (such as Elzhi, Big Pun, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Big L, Kool G Rap, Tech N9ne, Pharoahe Monch, Nas, and Redman) have been known to string together large sequences of complex rhyme patterns.
Eminem made extensive use of the technique in his early work, for example, It's OK; (rhymes are marked in bold for clarity):
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