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Types of Rhymes

Handy informaton for all Poets.

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Assonant rhyme
Rhyming of similar vowels but different consonants.
example: dip/limp


Consonant rhyme
Similar consonants but different vowels.
example: limp/lump


Eye rhyme
Based on spelling and not on sound.
example: love/move


Feminine rhyme (double, triple, extra-syllable, multi-syllable, extended)
Differing beginnings followed by multiple rhyming syllables.
example: drinking/shrinking


Identical rhyme
Uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning.
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Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress.
example: mat/combat


Macaronic rhyme
Rhyming of two words with different languages.
Masculine rhyme
Differing consonant sounds ending with identically stressed syllables.
example: report/support


Near rhyme (half, slant, approximate, off, oblique)
Final consonant sounds the same but initial consonants and vowel sounds are different.
example: tought/sat


Perfect rhyme (exact, true, full)
Begins with different sounds and end with the same.
example: pie/die


Rich rhyme (French for rime riche)
Word that rhymes with its homonym.
example: blue/blew


Scarce rhyme
Rhyming of words with limited rhyming alternatives.
example: whisp/lisp


Wrenched rhyme
A stressed syllable with an unstressed one (occurs most often in ballads and folk poetry).
example: lady/a bee

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  • Yvette Champ gold member
    September 2, 2008
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    Thankyou Lady Lavender, this is very useful, am bookmarking


  • Peteskid gold member
    August 31, 2008
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    This is very helpful, having this in one place...will bookmark this, a real help to those of us with questions about what some of these things mean... thank you ...LL ...PK