internal rhyme

An internal rhyme is a rhyme that happens within a single line of poetry. (noun)

An example of internal rhyme is "while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping."

See internal rhyme in Webster's New World College Dictionary

rhyming of words, within a poem, of which at least one word does not fall at the end of a line

See internal rhyme in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse, as in “the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother” (Dylan Thomas).

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