Subliminal Rhyme is a certain type of rhyme method (or rime) that requires a reader based interaction in order for the line to rhyme.
This method is completed by taking one word that means the same thing as the word that would normally rhyme.

Example:

I went to Seajack Smith's to get a dish
(insert random line assuming ABAB rhyme scheme)
I looked at the menu and ordered some trout

That clearly does not rhyme at a superficial level. Yet if you think: trout, bass, fins, breathes water, Fish.

The reader has gone through a mental process to complete the rhyme.

Beneficial to when actually completing the rhyme would conflict with the nature of the poem's meaning itself.

This definition is attributed to my english teacher and pencil shavings.

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