Rhyme

Time

Masculine Rhyme• Most common

• On stressed syllables (usu. vowel)

• At the end of verse lines

• Examples:– delay/stay love/above

Feminine Rhyme—double rhyme• A rhyme on two

syllables, the first stressed, the other unstressed (trochaic)

• Example:– mother/another

Dactylic Rhyme

• Rhyme on three syllables—the first stressed and the second and third stressed

• Examples: cacophonies, Aristophanes

Truncated Rhyme

• When a trochaic or dactylic rhyme

ends on a stressed syllable due to a shortening of the unstressed syllables

Slant Rhyme—

(a.k.a. half-rhyme, forced rhyme,

imperfect rhyme, near rhyme)• Where the vowel sounds

do not match

• Example: love/have

breed/dread

Eye Rhyme • spellings match,

but the sounds do not

Example:love/provecough/bough

End Rhyme• Obviously, appears at the end of a

line

Internal Rhyme• Rhyme between syllables in the same line

• Example:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary

Sound Devices

Alliteration• Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Example: The soul selects her own society.

Assonance• Repetition of vowel sounds

• Example:– Open/broken– Shake/hate

Consonance• Repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different

Example: rabies/robbers middle/muddle, wonder/wander