Assignment 05

Class Sonnets - Creativity and FUNdamentals
05 Methods of Rhyming

by Demented Sonneteer on Jul 15

Rhyming

Finally, we reach the point where we can learn something and have some serious fun with. This means that we finally get to one of the most important aspects of poetry, how to rhyme. This first lecture however, you are only going to learn five different methods of rhyming. These methods are known as the following: Feminine, Masculine, Half-rhyme, Eye, and Rime riche.

1. Feminine Rhyme – A rhyme in which the final syllable is unstressed.
          Nation, Elation
          Happy, Gladly

2. Masculine Rhyme – A rhyme made on a single stressed syllable.
          Book, Cook
          Fly, Sky

3. Half-Rhyme – A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance
or consonance only.
          Dry, Died – rhymes by the “i” sound
          Grown, Moon – rhymes by the “n” sound

4. Eye Rhyme – A rhyme consisting of words spelled the same with different sounds.
          Again, Pain
          Lint, Pint

5. Rime Riche – A rhyme using words or parts of words that are pronounced
identically but have different meanings
          Made, Maid
          Report, Port

These are just some of the many methods of rhyming and the most basic ones at that. However, it is all that is needed to write a sonnet successfully. If time remains at the end of the teachings of all the types of sonnets, then I will offer more methods of rhyming.

Assignment4: Due Tuesday 7/20 at 11:57 PM Central Time

Give me a quatrain in iambic pentameter for each rhyming method.

1. Feminine Rhyme – A rhyme in which the final syllable is unstressed.
          Nation, Elation
          Happy, Gladly

   
Yesterday we gave birth to our nation
Erected farms and erected cities
Now the leaders of our corporations
Take seats on a felony  committee

2. Masculine Rhyme – A rhyme made on a single stressed syllable.
          Book, Cook
          Fly, Sky

If by chance, at supper, you saw a fly
Would you really grab that leather bound book
Swap it on the head and witness it die
And then go screaming for the bloody cook

   
3. Half-Rhyme – A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only.
          Dry, Died – rhymes by the “i” sound
          Grown, Moon – rhymes by the “n” sound

In the meadow stood Betsy, my milk cow
Western sun dries the morning blanket dew
In the pasture I heard no barking sound
But the morn air  broken by a low moo
   
4. Eye Rhyme – A rhyme consisting of words spelled the same with different sounds.
          Again, Pain
          Lint, Pint

Xavier Hollander, high-class dame
Found herself in some precarious straits
When it was discovered she’s a Madame
And her sexual romps were not just straight

   
5. Rime Riche – A rhyme using words or parts of words that are pronounced identically but have different meanings

          Made, Maid
          Report, Port

Yesterday I sold my suit of tan suede
Because it was just too heavy and weighed
More than I and had been convinced and swayed
That this style was not my personal way