Blind Rhyme or Hidden Rhyme Hidden Rhyme, or Blind Rhyme, is an exercise verse, sometimes used in poetry workshops and classrooms in which the end-word of each line rhymes internally early within the next line. This practice appears to be a loose descendant from 4th century Celtic poet use of aicill rhyme.

Hidden Rhyme, or Blind Rhyme is:
* suited to light verse. (anything goes!)
* structured at the discretion of the poet.
* best when L1 sets a rhythm and the following lines maintain the same cadence.
* composed with the end-word of each line rhymed internally in the following line.
* often but NOT always, written with the first line rhyming with the last line.
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