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Rhyme, in the broadest sense of the term, is the repetition of same or similar speech sounds (phonemes). Often, however, the term is used specifically when such repetition occurs at the ends of verse lines, or at the ends of words (whether at the end of a line or not). In an even stricter sense of the term, corresponding to the most familiar case in English verse, rhyme is the exact phonemic matching of the ends of two lines with respect to their last stressed vowel and all phonemes following it (if any), combined with a difference in the beginnings of the syllables the stressed vowel belongs to. None of these senses alone matches all relevant uses of the term 'rhyme' and its analogues in languages other than English. As the authors of the article on rhyme in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics write,"[...] [T]he definition of what counts as rhyme is conventional and cultural: it expands and contracts from one national poetry, age, verse trad[ition], and genre to another. Hence, definition must shortly give way to a taxonomy of types [...]."See below Types (which mainly focuses on English) and Rhyme in different languages.