monorhymen.adj.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Monorhyme, a poetical composition, all the verses whereof end with the same rhyme.

1899 C. M. Gayley Introd. Methods & Materials Lit. Crit. vii. 472 According to the ingenious theory of La Grasserie the strophe arose in a somewhat mechanical way through the efforts of versifiers to do away with the monorhyme of the epic and to give to this type of poetry a lyric movement.

1921 L. Pound Poetic Origins & Ballad v. 180 If we impose the somewhat arbitrary condition of couplet or quatrain form, barring the three-line carol stave, quatrain monorhyme, and related forms, we are on fairly safe ground.

1963 J. V. Falconieri tr. E. A. Imbert Spanish-Amer. Lit. ii. x. 240 These verses, ‘playfully’ written, are octosyllables, some are monorhymes, which was a novelty.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Arabic Stud. 3 15 To free Arabic poetry from many restrictions, Zāhāwī proposed as early as 1912 the abolishment of the monorhyme.

1997 T. Steele Poems J. V. Cunningham 194 In his translation, Cunningham employs a quatrain of four-beat lines that freely mix disyllabic and trisyllabic feet, and he uses cross rhyme rather than monorhyme.

1868 T. Wright Pref. to Langtoft's Chron. (Rolls) II. p. xi In this manuscript each new set of monorimes is headed by a title in Latin.

1884 Catholic World Mar. 774 A gray old porch where cripples..sang rude old monorhymes concerning the saints.

1886 H. M. Posnett Compar. Lit. 46 (note) The rudeness of this versification, says M. Géruzez..is marked by monorimes, of indeterminate length.

1906 W. H. Schofield Eng. Lit. to Chaucer iii. 129 Due also to islanders are two poetical paraphrases of the Bible, in decasyllabic couplets or monorhymes.

1931 H. Lanz Physical Basis of Rime vi. 245 The monotony of continuous monorimes, distichs, and tercets of the form aab was broken once for all.

1960 L. A. Fiedler No! in Thunder i. 24 In each of six stanzas, the same six monorhymes must be repeated, the last one of the first stanza becoming the first of the next, the first becoming the second, the fifth the third, etc.

1833 H. W. Longfellow Drift-wood in Prose Wks. (1886) I. 299 The old romances were sung; and..hence there was a good reason for dividing them into monorhyme stanzas.

1921 L. Pound Poetic Origins & Ballad v. 164 A Ballad of the Twelfth Day..has probably escaped general recognition as a ballad because composed in monorhyme quatrains, a more elaborate form, instead of in the couplets of the Judas.

1965 W. M. Watt Hist. Islamic Spain x. 161 What the Andalusians handed down to their Romance successors was not their classical tradition—not their monorhyme odes with their succession of conventional themes..—but imaginative tales, [etc.].

1999 S. M. Whiting Satie the Bohemian iii. xii. 419 Cf. Hyspa's monorhyme strophes in ‘Air fantôme’.