Rhyme
There is more to rhyming than just
sounding the same.
Complete and defeat are not the same
type of rhyme as calling and falling.
We will look at the different types of
rhyming so that we may incorporate them
into our own poetry.
Types of Rhymes
Masculine
Feminine
End
Internal
Near/slant
Eye/sight
Masculine Rhyme
When the rhyme is one syllable:
Complete – Defeat
Notice that the only part that rhymes is the
“ete/eat” sound.
Feminine Rhyme
When the rhyme is two-syllable
The second syllable must be unstressed
Calling – Falling Notice that both the “all” and the “ing” syllables
rhyme, but the “all” is stressed where the “ing” is
unstressed
End and Internal Rhyme
End- When the rhyme takes place at the
“end of a line”
You were acting so bold/ Outside it was so
cold
Internal- When the rhyme takes place
within the line
He knew no more that he was poor. Emily Dickinson
Near-Slant Rhymes
When two words almost rhyme and are
imperfect.
George and Surge
*Can I see another’s woe,
And not be in sorrow too? -William Blake
Eye/Sight Rhymes
When words look like they will rhyme but
sound differently
Cough/Rough
*Many times man lives or dies
Between his two eternities.
-William Butler Yeats “Under Ben Bulben”
Advanced Rhymes
Half Double
The last syllable of one word rhymes with the next
to last syllable of another
Man and Savanna
Elided
When two syllables WOULD be a perfect rhyme
except for the vowel in the second syllable
Livid and Lived
Advanced Rhymes (cont)
Amphisbaenic
Two syllables are identical but in reverse Stick and Kits
Reverse
When the beginning of a word rhymes Native, Nature, Nation
Apophony
When two syllables share their beginnings and ends, but the vowel in the middle is different Stand/Stunned or Cattle/Kettle