Rhyme

What is rhyme? The echoing or repetition of sounds Used most often in poetry and songs – Couplets: two adjacent lines rhyme – ABAB/CDCD: every other line rhymes

Types of rhyme End rhyme – at the end of consecutive lines The olive skin of my favored love Is most like that of a lonely dove Internal rhyme – within lines The cat in a hat was hammered by a bat

Types of rhyme Sight rhyme – look like rhymes, but not All it is that life does want Is the same thing as an ant Slant rhyme – inexact or distant rhymes I once found favor in lying; But the favor was never mine. Vowel rhyme – rhyming of vowel sounds This party of five is a hoot I’ve remembered since my youth

The effect of rhyme Lines are easy to listen to Gives a song-like quality Unifies a poem Provides fluidity; ease of reading Emphasizes words or content

Example of rhyme Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; (a) And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (a) Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; (b) Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste: (b) And therefore is Love said to be a child, (c) Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.(c) From Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (I.i.234-9)

Short examples of rhyme Sweeping away the dust of the floor I found that I could sweep no more The promising light beneath my feet Lead my crooked path to you; And in return, your promise to me Is that we would again once meet Her voice did yield a pretty fruit She sang a song of proper suit