Refrangible rhyme is a neologistic or highly specialized term suggesting a type of rhyme that appears to “bend” or refract meaning upon repetition—where the repeated sound or word shifts in connotation, context, or emotional valence with each recurrence, much like light through a prism; this technique is central to forms like the villanelle, where refrains evolve in significance, but refrangible rhyme emphasizes the semantic instability within sonic repetition itself, revealing how identical sounds can carry divergent meanings depending on their poetic environment, thus deepening thematic complexity through acoustic recurrence.

Rhyme that breaks or bends across line breaks or stanzas. Creates fractured or unexpected connections. Compare with broken rhyme. Study how sound fragments.