Leonine verse
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Leonine verse is a type of versification based on internal rhyme, and commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages. In it there are leonine rhymes, meaning a rhyme of the half-line (as defined by a caesura) with the end of the line.[1] The name is attributed to a French poet Leonius, possibly the same person as Leoninus, a Benedictine musician of the twelfth century, though it is not thought that he invented the form.