Define the term masculine rhyme.

Masculine rhyme refers to any rhyme that matches only a
single syllable. Often it’s the final syllable of a word, where that slayable is
stressed. An example can be found in John Donne's poem Lecture Upon the
Shadow.

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Stand still, and I will read
to thee

A lecture, love, in
Love's
philosophy.

This
is a good example of masculine rhyme because it only matches the last syllable of each
word, and that syllable is stressed. Stressed means that when read aloud the natural
emphasis occurs at the end of the word. Masculine rhyme is in contrast to feminine rhyme
because it only matches a single syllable and is stressed, as opposed to feminine rhyme,
which matches at least two syllables that are unstressed.