Multiple rhyme consists of three or more syllables and usually gives a comic effect, as in Byron's--

Her plan she deemed both innocent and feasible,
     And, surely, with a stripling of sixteen
Not scandal's fangs could fix on much that's seizable

Rarely, multiple rhyme appears in a serious poem, as this of Hardy's :

Or is it only the breeze in its listlessness
Travelling across the wet mead to me here,
You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness

Multiple Rhyme can also be made up of more than one word, making it mosaic rhyme.

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