RHYME Rhyme The repetition of syllables typically at

RHYME

Rhyme The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. A rhyme scheme is usually the pattern of end rhymes in a stanza, with each rhyme encoded by a letter of the alphabet, from a onward (ABBA BCCB, for example)

Types of Rhyme Eye rhyme, rhymes only when spelled, not when pronounced. For example, “through” and “rough. ” The Last Rose of Summer' by Thomas Moore. 'Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone

Types of Rhyme End rhyme, the most common type, is the rhyming of the final syllables of a line. “Midstairs” by Virginia Hamilton Adair: And here on this turning of the stair Between passion and doubt, I pause and say a double prayer, One for you, and one for you; And so they cancel out.

More Types of Rhyme Half rhyme is the rhyming of the ending consonant sounds in a word (such as “tell” with “toll, ” or “sopped” with “leapt”). This is also termed “off-rhyme, ” “slant rhyme W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees – Those dying generations – at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.

Types of Rhyme Internal rhyme is rhyme within a single line of verse When a word from the middle of a line is rhymed with a word at the end of the line.

Types of Rhyme The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe 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. Tis some visitor, ” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door…. . Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore…

Rhyme Time (#6) 20 lines 5 stanzas Narrative – It tells a story End Rhyme Easiest schemes AABB/CCDD/EEFF ABAB/CDCD/EFEF