Download - Rhyme Time
Poetry:Rhyme Time
Round 3
True Rhyme
● fan & ran● The succeeding consonant sunds ("an") are
the same but the preceding consonant sounds are different.
End Rhyme
● Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line.● Most common type of rhyme.
Internal/Leonine Rhyme
● Also called Leonine Rhyme, occurs at some place after the beginning and before the end of the line
● "Here I am, an old man in a dry month"● "There's a whisper down the fieldwhere the
year has shot her yield.
Beginning Rhyme
● Occurs in the first syllable or syllables of lines. It is very rare.
● "Why should I have returned? / My knowledge would not fit into theirs. / I found untouched the desert of the unknown." -W.S. Merwin's "Noah's Raven
Masculine Rhyme
● Rhyme that falls on the stressed, concluding syllables of the rhyme words. "Mount and fount" are masculine.
● "Mountian and fountain" are feminine.
Feminine Rhyme
● A rhyme in which the rhyming stressed syllables are followed by undifferentiated idential unstresed syllable, as in waken & forsaken.
● Common with Chaucer because of the frequency of the final -e in Middle English.
● The tendancy is for the feminine rhymes to follow the masculine.
● i.e. The Star Spangled Banner--"light" "'gleaming" "fight" "streaming"
Compound Rhyme
● Rhyme between primary and secondary stressed syllables, as in such pairs as childhood/wildwood
● airborne/careworn ● wear rags/bear bags● gainsay me/play thee● tell me/befell thee● bobtailed/hobnailed● bootlace/suitcase
Triple Rhyme
● Rhyme in whch the rhyming stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed, undiffertiated syllables, as in meticulous & ridiculous
● also as in glorious & victorious● Used in serious work, such as Thomas Hood
and Thomas Hardy, but more commonly reserved for humerous, satirical verse, such as Bryon and Ogden Nash.
Identical Rhyme
● Also called redundant rhyme, or rime riche, in which a syllable both begins and ends in the same way as a rhyming syllable, without being the same word.
● If 2 lines end with rain, that is simple repetition. If, however rain occurs in a rhyming position with rein or reign, that is identical rhyme.
Eye Rhyme
● Rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but is not so from the pronunciation, as watch and match.
● love and move● Both these examples are cases of
consonance. ● imply/simply● Venus/menus● laughter/daughter
Slant/Near Rhyme
● Usually the subsitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme. Also called Oblique Rhyme, off rhyme, and pararhyme.
Assonance● Generally, patterning of vowel sounds without
regard to consonants. ● Successive: "knee-deep in the salt-marsh"● Alternating: "left my necktie" or "that young
sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists" ● Chiastic: "Rain has fallen all the day"● Lake/fake are true rhymes, lake/fate are
assonant. ● bows/down, blackened/last● Also used as an end rhyme, common in ballads &
nursery rhymes
Consonance
● The relation between words in which teh final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that precede them differ, as "add-read" "mill-ball" and "torn-burn."
● Most eye rhymes are instances of consonance.
● river/ever, heaven/given, up/step, peer/pare, while/hill, Star/door