Masculine rhyme

A masculine rhyme is a rhyme that matches only one syllable, usually at the end of respective lines. Often the final syllable is stressed.

English
In English prosody, a masculine rhyme is a rhyme of a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry. This term is interchangeable with single rhyme, and is often used contrastingly with the terms "feminine rhyme" and "double rhyme."

Because the bulk of English verse is written in iambic meter, in which normally every foot ends with a stressed syllable, in the majority of lines the last syllable is stressed; and so, in English-language poetry, masculine rhymes comprise a majority of all rhymes. John Donne's poem "Lecture Upon the Shadow" is one of many that utilise exclusively masculine rhyme:


 * Stand still, and I will read to thee
 * A lecture, love, in Love's philosophy.
 * These three hours that we have spent
 * Walking here, two shadows went
 * Along with us, which we ourselves produced.
 * But now the sun is just above our head,
 * We do those shadows tread,
 * And to brave clearness all things are reduced.

French
In French verse, a masculine rhyme is one in which the final syllable is not a "silent" e, even if the word is feminine. In classical French poetry, two masculine rhymes cannot occur in succession.