The Devil's Dictionary: Leonine (adj.)
Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:
The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach the pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues.
Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"
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