An off-centered rhyme is an internal rhyme scheme characterized by placing rhyming words or syllables in unexpected places in a given line. This is sometimes called a misplaced-rhyme scheme or a spoken-word rhyme style. Here is an example from the hip-hop group De La Soul:
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This is a common rhyme scheme found in the spoken word form of poetry and can also be found in hip-hop to a lesser degree.