A rhyme involving couplets, triplets, or stanzas, each with a tag or additional short line.
〔诗韵〕尾韵
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In traditional tail-rhymes, they further learned, the "caudal line," or tail, is shorter than the rhyming couplets that precede it.
All the authors wrote in an indigenous English verse form, tail-rhyme, which was used almost exclusively for romances and, from the mid-fourteenth century on replaced the French-derived couplet of earlier Middle English narratives.
In addition to these tail rhymes all of the lines, bar the refrain, include at least two internal rhymes and usually even more than that.
I will have to consult the rest of the jury but I can venture a guess that tail rhymes are not allowed but assonance and consonance are fair game.
With the exception of A Mery Gest, whose metre Edwards describes as a form of tail rhyme, all of More's poetry (including the Pico Verse translations) are written in rhyme royal.