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| | Rhyming |
 | | Of course, by referring to a poem as 'rhyming', prosody, as well as the layman, means that the last words of two (or more) verses are connected by rhyme; the occurrence of rhymes in the middle of verses will be covered, maybe, in the chapter devoted to advanced poetic devices. |
 | | Entire poems written in identity rhymes exist in archaic Italian poetry; the most notorious (and perhaps most successful) example is Guittone d'Arezzo's 'Tuttor, s'eo veglio o dormo', an amazing work composed of 36 ambiguous couplets, which are far more diffcult to contrive in Italian than they are in French or English. |
 | | This is a false rhyme that exists only in English and is strictly connected to the nature of iambic verse: since an ideal reader would stress all even syllables, lines are assumed to rime when their last even syllables (in a pentameter, the tenth ones), and whatever comes after, are matched. |
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