2. True Rhyme
● fan & ran
● The succeeding consonant sunds ("an") are
the same but the preceding consonant
sounds are different.
3. End Rhyme
● Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line.
● Most common type of rhyme.
4. 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.
5. 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
6. Masculine Rhyme
● Rhyme that falls on the stressed,
concluding syllables of the rhyme words.
"Mount and fount" are masculine.
● "Mountian and fountain" are feminine.
7. 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"
8. 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
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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
12. Slant/Near Rhyme
● Usually the subsitution of assonance or
consonance for true rhyme. Also called
Oblique Rhyme, off rhyme, and pararhyme.
13. 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
14. 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
