Rhyme

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Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Rhyme

alternating rhyme

apocopated rhyme

approximate rhyme

assonant rhyme

broken rhyme

caesural rhyme

crossed rhyme

end rhyme

envelope rhyme

extended rhyme

extra-syllable rhyme

eye rhyme

feminine rhyme

full rhyme

half rhyme

head rhyme

identical rhyme

imperfect rhyme

initial rhyme

inserted rhyme

interlaced rhyme

interlocking rhyme

intermittent rhyme

internal rhyme

irregular rhyme

leonine rhyme

light rhyme

linked rhyme

macaronic rhyme

masculine rhyme (single rhyme, one-syllable rhyme)

medial rhyme

multiple rhyme

near rhyme

oblique rhyme

occasional rhyme

off rhyme

pararhyme

perfect rhyme

pure rhyme

rich rhyme (rime riche)

scarce rhyme

slant rhyme

sporadic rhyme

terminal rhyme

thorn line

triple rhyme

true rhyme

wrenched rhyme

approximate rhyme	Approximate Rhyme
end rhyme	End rhyme
feminine rhyme	rhyming with two (stressed syllable followed by unstressed) or three syllables carrot-garret ever-never inviting-exciting ex. in "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Miserables See also Masculine and Feminine Rhyme
identical rhyme	rhyming using the same word ex. sleep-sleep in Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
light rhyme	rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stressed syllable ex.
pure rhyme true rhyme perfect rhyme	hill-still, form-storm, wrong-song
slant rhyme off rhyme half rhyme	fear-care, face-dress
end rhyme
internal rhyme	Sing Inside the Lines (Shakespeare "Sonnet 18") (Shakespeare "Sonnet 116")

Further Information

Adams, Stephen J. Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1997.
Malof, Joseph. A Manual of English Meters. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970.

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