1. Rhyme Time

2. Masculine Rhyme Most common On stressed syllables (usu. vowel) At the end of verse lines Examples: –delay/staylove/above

3. Feminine Rhyme —double rhyme A rhyme on two syllables, the first stressed, the other unstressed (trochaic) Example: –mother/another

4. Dactylic Rhyme Rhyme on three syllables—the first stressed and the second and third stressed Examples: cacophonies, Aristophanes

5. Truncated Rhyme When a trochaic or dactylic rhyme ends on a stressed syllable due to a shortening of the unstressed syllables

6. Slant Rhyme — (a.k.a. half-rhyme, forced rhyme, imperfect rhyme, near rhyme) Where the vowel sounds do not match Example: love/have breed/dread

7. Eye Rhyme spellings match, but the sounds do not Example: love/prove cough/bough

8. End Rhyme Obviously, appears at the end of a line

9. Internal Rhyme Rhyme between syllables in the same line Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary

10. Sound Devices

11. Alliteration Repetition of initial consonant sounds Example: The soul selects her own society.

12. Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds Example: –Open/broken –Shake/hate

13. Consonance Repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different Example: rabies/robbers middle/muddle, wonder/wander