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