A masculine rhyme is a rhyme that matches only one syllable, usually at the end of respective lines. Often the final syllable is stressed.
In English prosody, a masculine rhyme is a rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry. This term is interchangeable with single rhyme and is often used contrastingly with the terms "feminine rhyme" and "double rhyme".
In English-language poetry, especially serious verse, masculine rhymes comprise a majority of all rhymes.John Donne's poem "Lecture Upon the Shadow" is one of many that utilise exclusively masculine rhyme:
In French verse, a masculine rhyme is one in which the final syllable is not a "silent" e, even if the word is feminine. In classical French poetry, two masculine rhymes cannot occur in succession.