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(In one sense the marked words are an extreme example of exact rhyme, but that's not the term that best describes them.)

                            He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
                            And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
                            Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
                            Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
                            Voices of play and pleasure after day,
                            Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.
                                                             --Wilfred Owen
exact rhyme  consonance  metrical augmentation
slant, near, half rhyme euphony headless line
mosaic rhyme  onomatopoeia  catalexis
wrenched rhyme alliteration enjambment
masculine rhyme beat/ictus end-stopped
feminine rhyme implied offbeat anacrusis
multiple rhyme unrealized beat hypermetric syllable
vowel rhyme  tumbling verse diaeresis
monorhyme  sprung rhythm substitution
rhyme riche poetic contraction elision
internal rhyme synaeresis hemistich
assonance  syncope caesura