Perfect rhyme — also called
full rhyme,
exact rhyme, or
true rhyme — is a form of
rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions:
- The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, "sky" and "high"; "skylight" and "highlight".
- The articulation that precedes the vowel in the words must differ. For example, "bean" and "green" is a perfect rhyme, while "leave" and "believe" is not.