Slant (near, half) rhyme occurs when a concluding consonant is the same, but the vowel sound differs. Any concluding open vowel can rhyme with any other open vowel, though usually the sounds are as close as: tea/say; woe/hue; or lie/be. Below is an example of masculine (one-syllable) slant rhyme:

It dropped so low--in my Regard--
I heard it hit the Ground--
And go to pieces on the Stones
At bottom of my Mind--
                      --Dickinson

Slant rhymes can be feminine (two-syllable, second syllable unstressed) also:

            WHEN cold December
            Froze to grisamber
            The jangling bells on the sweet rose-trees--
            Then fading slow
            And furred is the snow
            As the almond's sweet husk--
            And smelling like musk.
                           --Edith Sitwell
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