Within a particular scope, all rhyme elements with the same value for their label attribute are assumed to rhyme with each other. The scope is defined by the nearest ancestor element for which the rhyme attribute has been supplied.
<lg rhyme="abababcc"> <l>'Tis pity learned virgins ever <rhyme label="a">wed</rhyme> </l> <l>With persons of no sort of edu<rhyme label="b">cation</rhyme>,</l> <l>Or gentlemen, who, though well born and <rhyme label="a">bred</rhyme>,</l> <l>Grow tired of scientific conver<rhyme label="b">sation</rhyme>:</l> <l>I don't choose to say much on this <rhyme label="a">head</rhyme>,</l> <l>I'm a plain man, and in a single <rhyme label="b">station</rhyme>,</l> <l>But — Oh! ye lords of ladies inte<rhyme label="c">llectual</rhyme>,</l> <l>Inform us truly, have they not hen-<rhyme label="a">peck'd you all</rhyme>?</l> </lg>