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