Rhyme scheme pattern of end rhyme to which
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Rhyme scheme: pattern of end rhyme to which letters are assigned for each rhyme. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. A A B A My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. B B C B
End rhyme: rhyming of final syllables of each line. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “ ’Tis some visitor, ” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more. ”
Masculine rhyme: rhymes ending in a stressed syllable; most common type of rhyme. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
Feminine rhyme: rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more by it was troubled. *Note: this is common (though not exclusive) with rhymes of words where suffixes are added: • winning (win) • grinning (grin)
Internal rhyme: a word from the middle of a line is rhymed with a word at the end of the line. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “ ’Tis some visitor, ” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more. ”
Slant rhyme: an imperfect or approximate rhyme. This latest Leisure equal lulls The Beggar and his Queen Propitiate this Democrat A Summer’s Afternoon.
monorhyme: consisting of one single rhyme sound throughout a stanza. For possessed of Day Thousand spirits stray That sweet joys betray
Eye rhyme: consisting of one single rhyme sound throughout a stanza. The pigs were feeding from a trough While the farmer worked the plough; (ow) He asked the world if it was enough; No one had the answer though, Or time to see it through. (off) (uff) (oh) (oo)
