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Is there an official term to describe a rhyming technique where the first word of a sentence rhymes with the last word of the same sentence?

For example, lines such as

Brian almost got eaten by a lion

or

Meet by the fields of wheat

where the rhymes essentially envelop the entire sentence.

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    Me think this is a question for English SE.
    – DWKraus
    Commented Mar 23, 2021 at 20:03
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    @DWKraus I think this is perfectly on-topic here, as per the terminology tag. It is on-topic for English.SE as well, but that's not a reason to migrate it there.
    – F1Krazy
    Commented Mar 26, 2021 at 17:03

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I think this is called an internal rhyme. Here’s what I found on Wikipedia.

In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme.

-Wikipedia

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    Yes, this is internal rhyme. Commented Mar 27, 2021 at 5:52

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