ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Holorime

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard of a holorime? It's a fancy name for a fun type of poem, where every single word in two lines of poetry rhymes with each other!

Let's try an example just for practice. Here's a holorime:

In the wee hours that she laughed and sang,
The leech powers that be laughed and then they sprang!

Do you see how every word at the end of both lines rhymes? It's like a fun little challenge for poets to see if they can come up with a holorime that makes sense.

Sometimes holorimes are used in longer poems, or even in songs! But no matter how they're used, they always have a special rhythm and sound to them because of their rhyming words.

Pretty cool, huh?
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