Masculine rhyme is a one-syllable rhyme that can consist of a vowel sound or a vowel plus one or more consonants. The name comes from the grammatical gender of the Romance languages, in particular French, where the masculine form (grand, big) sends in a consonant, whereas the feminine form (grande) ends in a vowel that is pronounced as an additional syllable in a poem.

Masculine rhymes can be exact: way/say; bone/tone; witch/hitch.

But they can also be slant rhymes: see/day; harm/worm; tear/shore.
 
 

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