Types of Rhyme

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Types of Rhyme

• For rhyme the
• rudder is of verses,
• with which like
• ships they steer
• their courses.
• -- Samuel Butler

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Rhyme

• Rhyme may be defined as the repetition of both
  vowel and consonant sounds of words in a poem.

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End Rhyme

• End rhyme is a rhyme that concludes a line.
• Example   This grave partakes the fleshly birth,
•                      Which cover lightly, gentle
  earth.
•                                         ---Ben
  Jonson

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Internal Rhyme

• Internal rhyme -- a rhyme that occurs within a
  line.
• Example
• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
  weak and weary
•                                         ---Edgar
  Allan Poe

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Exact Rhyme

• Exact rhyme (also called complete, full,
  perfect, true, or whole rhyme) -- a rhyme in
  which correspondence in the vowel sound and ---
  in words ending in consonants --- the sound of
  the final consonant, occurs a rhyme in which the
  perfect correspondence of sound is extended to
  include the consonant preceding the vowel, thus
  resulting in an exactly identical pronunciation,
  as in bear and bare.
• Example            Thou still unravish'd bride
  of quietness,
•                                 Thou foster-child
  of silence and slow time,
•                             Sylvan historian, who
  canst thus express
•                                 A flowery tale
  more sweetly than our rhyme
•                                     ---John Keats

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Masculine Rhyme

• Masculine rhyme -- a rhyme occurring in words of
  one syllable, or in an accented final syllable.
• Example  Heart, with what lonely fears you
  ached,
•                  How lecherously mused upon
•                  That horror with which Leda
  quaked
•                  Under the spread wings of the
  swan
•                                     ---Robert
  Graves

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Feminine Rhyme

• Feminine rhyme -- a rhyme occurring on an
  unaccented final syllable, as in dining and
  shining or motion and ocean feminine rhymes are
  double, or disyllabic.
• Example     What? your myrtle-bush wants
  trimming?
•                     Oh, that rose has prior
  claims --
•                     Needs its leaden vase filled
  brimming?
•                                     ---Robert
  Browning

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Identical Rhyme

• Identical rhyme -- when identical words are used
  to rhyme two or more times.
• Example            To see in death sleep, and in
  the sunset
•                             A sad gold---such is
  poetry,
•                             Which is immortal and
  poor. Poetry
•                             Returns like the dawn
  and the sunset.
•                              ---Jorge Luis
  Borges, trans. by W.S. Merwin

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Slant Rhyme

• Slant rhyme (also called approximate, half,
  imperfect, near, oblique, or partial rhyme) -- a
  rhyme in which the sounds are similar but not
  exact slant rhyme includes assonance (when the
  vowels of two stressed syllables sound similar
  close and lose) and consonance (when the
  consonants sound alike but the vowels differ
  love and leave).
• Example            This is my letter to the
  World
•                             That never wrote to
  Me---
•                             The simple News that
  Nature told---
•                             With tender Majesty
•                                            
  ---Emily Dickinson