Rhyme

Repetition of syllables

Most often at the end of a line of

poetry

Rhymed words usually share all sounds

following the word’s last stressed
syllable
Rhyme Scheme
Describes the pattern of end rhymes
in a stanza

Letters of the alphabet are used to

code the rhyme scheme (ABAB, for
example)
Some words are EYE rhymes – they
only rhyme when spelled, but not
when pronounced.

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END rhyme is more common – the final
syllables in the line are rhymed:
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night
(William Blake, The Tyger)
MASCULINE Rhyme is a common type
of rhyming. The stressed syllable is
the end of the line of poetry & it is
the syllable which rhymes.
hells and bells
cat and rat
annoy and destroy
FEMININE Rhyme occurs when the
penultimate (second to last) syllable is
the stressed syllable and rhymes with
the penultimate syllable in another
word (typically –ing or –er words).
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IDENTICAL Rhyme uses the same,
identical word twice in rhyming
positions

“I can have another you in a minute /

matter of fact, he’ll be here in a
minute”
INTERNAL Rhyme is when words within
a single line of poetry rhyme with each
other – a word in the middle of the line
could rhyme with a word at the end of
the line.
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.

(Edgar Allan Poe)