English Dictionary

end rhyme

noun

(often uncountable) The form of rhyme (rhyming) which uses sameness of sound of the last words of lines from the vowels in their stressed syllables to their ends.

The poet used end rhyme to create a musical quality in the poem.

意味（1）

(often uncountable) The form of rhyme (rhyming) which uses sameness of sound of the last words of lines from the vowels in their stressed syllables to their ends.

意味（2）

(countable) A word that rhymes with another in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

In this poem, the words defense/tense, know/go, and Spain/Maine are end-rhymes.