Identity of terminal sound between accented syllables, usually occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse. Fan and ran are true rhyme because the vowels and succeeding consonants “an” are the same but the preceding consonant sounds are different. The recurrence of rhyme at regular intervals establishes the form of a stanza.

The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza

Words with identical sounds but different meanings as “stair” and stare or well and well

Same as Rime Riche and redundant rhyme. Rain and Rein. Using the same word, such as work and work is repetition not identical rhyme

Rhyme that falls on the stressed, concluding syllables of the rhyme words. Mount and Fount

A rhyme in which the rhyming stressed syllables are followed by an undifferentiated identical unstressed syllable, as waken and forsaken. Also called double rhyme.

Same as feminine rhyme. Similar stressed syllables are followed by identical unstressed syllable. Stream and beam are rhymes; streaming and beaming are double rhymes

Rhyme between primary and secondary stressed syllables as in such pairs as “childhood” and “wildwood” or castigate and masticate.

Rhyme between the first syllable of one word and the second syllable of another, and vice versa. Meathead and Deadbeat

A line of verse that ends on a stressed syllable, as does any regular iambic line

An extrametrical unstressed syllable added to the end of a line in iambic or anapestic rhythm, giving a sense of movement and irregularity, common in black verse. To be, or not to be — that is the question

Rare type of rhyme that occurs in the first syllable or syllables of lines

Rhyme at the ends of lines in a poem; the most common type of rhyme

Same as end rhyme

The breaking of a word at the end of a line for the sake of a rhyme. In divers habits, yet are still one kind, / So doth, so is religion; and this blind- / ness too much light breeds…

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Rhyme in which the final stressed syllable of a word is rhymed with the stressed syllable of a word ending in a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. “Fly around, I say, … / You’ll drive me almost crazy.”

The occurence of the same or similar unstressed syllables preceding rhyming stressed syllables, as in indeed rhymed with in need.

Sameness or similarity of endings of consecutive words or words near each other, often considered unsettling or graceless but sometimes unavoidable, as in adjacent adverbs (relatively easily), verbal forms (emerging meaning becoming fashionable), accidental sameness of affixes (truly holy family).

Used by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the rhyme sound is begun at the end of a line but not completed until the beginning of the next.

“Rest of them… unconfessed of / them… breas of the / Maiden.

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Same as Fused Rhyme

Rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllables in a line. Here I am, an old man in a dry month.

Couplets, usually hexameter or longer, in which the words preceding the ceasura rhyme Ex: Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath; / We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.

Same as crossed rhyme

Internal rhyming of the last stresed syllable before the Caesaura with the last stressed syllable of the line. THe name is derived from the name of a writer of the Middle Ages, Leoninus, who wrote verses containing such internal rhyme. “There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield.”

The sound of the last syllable of one line recurs as the sound of the first syllable of the next but with a change of meaning. It would occur if a line ending “weight” were succeeded by one beginning “wait.”

One line in a rhyming unit carries forward the rhyme for the next unit, like in Terza Rima.

Ex: aba bcb cdc ded

The repetition in accented syllables of the final consonant sound without the correspondence of the preceding vowel sound, as in “grope” and “cup” or “restored” and “word.”

Same as near rhyme; usually substituting assonance or consonance for true rhyme

Another term for near rhyme, half rhyme, and slant rhyme

imperfect rhyme, usually the result of consonance

Rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but is not so from the pronunciation, as “watch” and “match” or “love” and “move.”

A poem that uses only one rhyme

Also called mosaic, multiple rhyme in which one word is forced into a rhyme with two or more words. These are usually outlandish and comic, as in “But – Oh! Ye lords of ladies intellectual, / Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?”

Same as hetereomerous rhyme. Also, compositions consisting of quotations from one or more authors, like a cento.

A literary patchwork, usually in verse, made up of scraps from one or more authors

A Tail-Rhyme Stanza, in which two lines, usually in tetrameter are followed by a short line, usually in trimeter, two successive short lines rhyming. aabccb where a and c line are tetrameter and the b trimeter.

A term applied to the rhyme pattern of the In Memoriam stanza: abba

A seven-line Iambic pentameter stanza rhymning ababbcc, sometimes with an Alexandrine (hexameter) seventh line. It derived its name in honor of King James I who used it, even though he did not originate the form.

Named for the monster in Greek Fable that has a head at each end and can go in either direction, the term is used to describe backward Rhyme — that is, two rhyme words the second of which inverts the order of the first, as “step” and “pets”.

The relation between syllables as “pal” and “lap,” also called Amphisbaenic or Boustrophedon rhyme

Rhyme in which the stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed, undifferentiated syllables as in “meticulous” and “ridiculous”.