Rhyme

Rhyme is the repetition

of identical or similar
sounding words occurring
at the end of lines in
poems and songs.
Full Rhymes
A perfect Rhyme is a case in
which two words rhyme in such
way that their final stressed
vowel and all following sounds
are identical.
Examples include sight and
light, right and might, rose and
dose, hall and wall.
Incomplete Rhymes

Two main groups:

1.Vowel Rhymes
2.Consonant Rhymes
1. Vowel Rhyme
This is the rhyming of vowels
in words but with different
consonants.
Examples include tip and
limp, dank and bat, bowl
and home, fresh and press.
2. Consonant Rhyme
This is the rhyming of
consonants but not vowels.
Examples include bell
and ball, dump and damp,
treble and trouble, mile
and mole.
Head Rhyme
Also called initial rhyme.
Rhyme that has the same initial
consonant at the beginning of
the words.
Examples are blue and blow,
sun and sand, merry and
monkey
Eye Rhyme
The rhyming in this type is
based on spelling and not
sound.
Examples are: move and
love,love and prove, cough
and bough, food and
good,have and grave.
Rich Rhyme

Rhyme using two different

words that happen to sound
the same (i.e. homonyms)
Example are: raise and raze,
break and brake, vary and
very, lessen and lesson.
Rhyme
Scheme
Rhyme scheme
Rhyme scheme is the
pattern of rhyme that comes
at the end of each verse or
line in poetry.
Types of Rhyme Scheme
There are a number of rhyme scheme; some of
the most popular include:
• Alternate rhyme: It is also known as ABAB
rhyme scheme, it rhymes as “ABAB CDCD
EFEF GHGH.”
• Ballade: It contains three stanzas with the
rhyme scheme of “ABABBCBC” followed by
“BCBC.”
• Mono rhyme: It is a poem in which every line
uses the same rhyme scheme.
Alternate Rhyme
Example #1: Neither Out Far nor in
Deep (By Robert Frost)
• The people along the sand (A)
All turn and look one way. (B)
They turn their back on the land. (A)
They look at the sea all day. (B)
Ballade
Example #2: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (By
Donald Barthelme)
• Twinkle, twinkle, little star, (A)
How I wonder what you are. (A)
Up above the world so high, (B)
Like a diamond in the sky. (B)
Monorhyme
Example #3: A Monorhyme for the Shower (By
Dick Davis)
• Lifting her arms to soap her hair (A)
Her pretty breasts respond – and there (A)
The movement of that buoyant pair (A)
Is like a spell to make me swear… (A)
• Here you’ll notice that every line ends in a
similar rhyme, “AAAA” like these words, “hair,
there, pair, and swear.”
Types of Rhyme Scheme

• Couplet: It contains two-line stanzas with the

“AA” rhyme scheme, which often appears as
“AA BB CC and DD…”
• Triplet: It often repeats like a couplet, uses
rhyme scheme of “AAA.”
• Enclosed rhyme: It uses rhyme scheme of
“ABBA”
• Terza rima rhyme scheme: It uses three
lines stanzas. Its interlocking pattern on end
words follows: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.
Couplet
Example #4: Nature’s Way (By Heidi Campbell)
• Upon a nice mid-spring day, A
Let’s take a look at Nature’s way. A
Breathe the scent of nice fresh air, B
Feel the breeze within your hair. B
The grass will poke between your toes, C
Smell the flowers with your nose. C
Clouds form shapes within the skies, D
And light will glisten from your eyes D
Triplet
Example #5: Burn Out Blues (By Judi Van Gorder)
• The sun on Sunday morning calls, come and play.
the morning’s sun calls, come out and play,
but first, I have a Sunday duty to pay.
• But that sun sure tempts me to skip and stray,
yes I sure am tempted to skip and stray,
why am I bound to fit church in my day?
• Hard part is, I believe it’s the right thing to do,
it’s hard, but believe it’s the right thing to do,
I’ve lived it, I’ve taught it and loved it too.
Enclosed Rhyme
Example # 6: Milton's "When I Consider How My
Light is Spent“ (ABBA ABBA CDECDE)
• When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide;
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience to prevent
Terza rima Rhyme Scheme
Example #3: Divine Comedy (By Dante Alighieri)
• As I drew nearer to the end of all desire, (A)
I brought my longing’s ardor to a final
height, (B)
Just as I ought. My vision, becoming
pure, (A)
Entered more and more the beam of that high
light (B)
That shines on its own truth. From then, my
seeing (C)
Became too large for speech, which fails at a
sight… (B)