In classical French poetry, two masculine rhymes cannot occur in succession.

A masculine rhyme is a rhyme that matches only one syllable, usually at the end of respective lines.

When a masculine ending is rhymed, the result is called a masculine rhyme.

In English-language poetry, especially serious verse, masculine rhymes comprise a majority of all rhymes.

In English prosody, a masculine rhyme is a rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry.

In French verse, a masculine rhyme is one in which the final syllable is not a "silent" e, even if the word is feminine.

The rhyme scheme is ABCBDB, and masculine rhymes appear frequently.

John Donne's poem "Lecture Upon the Shadow" is one of many that utilise exclusively masculine rhyme:

(Masculine rhyme):

These lines are primarily trochaic, with the last syllable dropped so that the line ends with a stressed syllable to give a strong rhyme or masculine rhyme.

Gardener, who could take a hint (especially when his stomach was concerned), composed a sonnet so filled with exuberant masculine rhymes that he burst into gales of laughter after scanning the second draft.

Rhyming words ending with this silent "e" were said to make up a "feminine rhyme", while words not ending with this silent "e" made up a "masculine rhyme".

Almost the entire work is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme "AbAbCCddEffEgg", where the uppercase letters represent feminine rhymes while the lowercase letters represent masculine rhymes.

The unusually heavy stresses and abrupt masculine rhymes impose a slow and sonorous weightiness upon the movement of the iambic octosyllabics which is quite in contrast, say, to the light fast metre of the final stanza where speed of movement matches buoyancy of tone."