To me, the one advantage of the term 'conceptual rhyme', as opposed to, say, semantic echo, is that it suggests the echo will occur at the end of each line, a thing worth pointing out. Mark, you've done that in your sample, but I've not seen it mentioned yet in this thread. There's a long tradition of rhyming at the end stops which lends weight to this somewhat sloppy - or perhaps shorthand - borrowing of the term, IMO.
In other words, I'm not a big fan of the term conceptual rhyme.
Cheers,
John
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