By prof.Abdelhamid Fouda
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often at the end of lines in poems and songs. There are many types of rhymes but mostly known and mostly used rhymes in English poetry are as follows;
1)CHAIN RHYME
A rhyme scheme in which a rhyme in a line of one stanza is used as a link to a rhyme in the next stanza.
2)CROSS RHYME
Occurs when the syllable at the end of a line rhymes with a word in the middle of a line before or after it.
Example: The sound flung on the air
The song is sung
(the cross rhyme is flung and sung)
3)END RHYME
(Also known as SIGHT RHYME)
The near duplication of sounds that takes place at the ends of lines. End rhyme is the most common type of rhyme.
Examples: Heat, Neat, Feet, Greet, Sweet
4)EYE RHYME
Rhyme in which the ending of words are spelled alike; in most instances were pronounced alike, but not always are they pronounced alike.
Example: Lint, Pint, Sprint
5)FEMININE RHYME
A rhyme that occurs when the final syllable in Unstressed (normally used with multi-syllable words)
Examples: pleasure/leisure, longing/yearning
6)IMPERFECT RHYME
(also known as PARTIAL, HALF, NEAR, OFF, SLANT and APPROXIMATE RHYME)
A rhyme in which the vowels are either approximate or different; and occasionally, even the rhymed consonants are similar rather than identical.
Example: Dry, Died (“i”) or Grown, Moon (“n”)
7)INTERNAL RHYME
(also known as MIDDLE and LEONINE RHYME)
Involves rhyming sounds within the same line.
Example: ”Sister, my sister, O fleet, sweet, swallow.” –Swinburne
Example 2:Where I once had a Bill to drive back my chill
8)LINKED RHYME
A rhyme between the last syllable or syllables of a line with the first syllable or syllables of the following line.
Example: The song is sung
Flung upon the air
(Sung and Flung)
9)MASCULINE RHYME
A rhyme that occurs when the final syllable is Stressed (can be in either single or mulit-syllable words)
Examples: desire/fire, observe/deserve, cat/hat
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