RhymeRepetition of syllablesMost often at the end of a line of poetryRhymed words usually share all sounds following the word’s last stressed syllable

Rhyme SchemeDescribes the pattern of end rhymes in a stanzaLetters of the alphabet are used to code the rhyme scheme (ABAB, for example)

Some words are “EYE” rhymes – they only rhyme when spelled, but not when pronounced.

through and rough

“END” rhyme is more common – the final syllables in the line are rhymed:

Tyger, tyger, burning brightIn the forests of the night

(William Blake, The Tyger)

“FEMININE” Rhyme is in the unstressed syllablesdicing and enticingtable and label

“IDENTICAL” Rhyme uses the same, identical word twice in rhyming positions

“INTERNAL” Rhyme is when words within a single line of poetry rhyme with each other – a word in the middle of the line could rhyme with a word at the end of the line.

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

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

(Edgar Allan Poe)

“MASCULINE” Rhyme is a common type of rhyming. The stressed syllable is the end of the line of poetry & it is the syllable which rhymes.

hells and bellscat and ratannoy and destroy

“MONORHYME” is when there is only one rhyme in the entire stanza.

Silent, Silent Night by William Blake

Silent Silent NightQuench the holy lightOf thy torches bright

For possessd of DayThousand spirits strayThat sweet joys betray

Why should joys be sweetUsed with deceitNor with sorrows meet

But an honest joyDoes itself destroyFor a harlot coy

“PARARHYME” is when two words almost rhyme, but the vowels are slightly different

Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned.

(Wilfred Owen)

CONSONANCE Sounds in two words resemble one another – they almost rhyme

bed and badbud and dab

HALF RHYME: tell and toll, sopped and leapt; the end sound is the same

(Sometimes, “Half Rhyme” is called “Off-Rhyme” or “Slant Rhyme” or “Apophany”)