Okay, this is an easy one. To borrow a joke from the Simpsons, monorhyme is made up of two Greek roots, mono meaning one, and rhyme meaning rhyme. This pattern is (in my experience) best used for light verse, in which it becomes a fun exercise to see just how far the poet can take it. Here's my favorite example, a poem by Dick Davis:
"Monorhyme for the Shower"
Lifting her arms to soap her hair
Her pretty breasts respond--and there
The movement of that buoyant pair
Is like a spell to make me swear
Twenty odd years have turned to air;
Now she's the girl I didn't dare
Approach, ask our, much less declare
My love to, mired in young despair.
Childbearing, rows, domestic care--
All the prosaic wear and tear
That constitute the life we share--
Slip from her beautiful and bare
Bright body as, made half aware
Of my quick surreptitious stare,
She wrings the water from her hair
And turning smiles to see me there.
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