1. WARM-UP
Write the first words that pop into your mind that rhyme with the following words:
Breath
Life
Alarming
Glow
Diabolic
Quiver
Fury
Bells
Abstract
Reign
Orange 

2. 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

3. 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)

4. Some words are EYE rhymes – they only rhyme when spelled, but not when pronounced.
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5. 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)

6. MASCULINE Rhyme is a common type of rhyming
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

7. 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).
dicing and enticing
table and label

8. 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”

9. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
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)

10. MONORHYME occurs when there is only one rhyme in the entire stanza.
Silent, Silent Night by William Blake
Silent Silent Night
Quench the holy light
Of thy torches bright
For possessd of Day
Thousand spirits stray
That sweet joys betray
Why should joys be sweet
Used with deceit
Nor with sorrows meet
But an honest joy
Does itself destroy
For a harlot coy