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A rhyme of a single stressed syllable [as stress/dress] is called a masculine rhyme; a rhyme of two or more syllables, with all but the first unstressed [as heather/feather] is called a feminine rhyme.
But why are gender words used to distinguish the two types? How did this teminoloy evolve? Perhaps (he said, semi-facetiously) on the theory that the feminine version is the more complex?
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