A. E. Housman: Poems

In “To an Athlete Dying Young,” pairs of words such as "down"/"town," "shut"/"cut," and "fade"/"shade" are called

refrain.
exact rhymes.
meter.
alliteration.

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These are exact rhymes. They have the same vowel sounds and the same following consonants.