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RHYME AND THE KINDS OF RHYME IN POETRY
Pronunciation: /raɪm/
Etymology: Greek rhythmos: "measured flow or
movement”
While reading metrical verses, a reader may feel a
harmoniously tuneful and melodious effect,
produced by syllables and words
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According to a general perception, the term rhyme
exclusively refers to an association between similar sounds at the end of poetry; in context, the
present section shall seek to apprise its readers of different kinds of rhymes as preferred by poets
in the vast realm of English literature
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Such an effect is created through an agreement of sounds between
words, and the relationship between stressed and unstressed syllables
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Critics have elaborated different
kinds of rhymes, based on exact correspondence between (internal and ending) sounds on one
hand, and a comparable correspondence between the aforementioned sounds on the other hand,
according to the metrical demands of poetic compositions
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The formal arrangement of rhymes at the end of the lines of poetic verses is known as
rhyme scheme
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The rhyme scheme of first two stanzas from Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop
for Death” can be identified as follows:

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Because I could not stop for death

(a)

He kindly stopped for me

(b)

The carriage held but just ourselves (c)
And immortality

(b)

We slowly drove – he knew no haste (d)
And I had put away

(e)

My labor and my leisure too,

(f)

For his civility

(b)

(Dickinson, 2005a, p
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Following are some of the kinds of rhymes contributed by English poets during their relevant
poetic traditions:

i
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Perfect Rhyme

ii
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Internal Rhyme

iv
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Eye rhyme

vi
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e
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For example the rhyme between the words like noon/
June, thrill/ grill, etc
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Masculine rhyme refers to a monosyllabic rhyme between final stressed syllables
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145)
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158)
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g
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g
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The lines mentioned below exemplify feminine
rhyme in verses, taken from Alfred Tennyson’s
renowned poem entitled: “Mariana”; the
unstressed syllables have been underlined:
All day within the dreamy house,
The doors upon their hinges creaked;
The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse
Behind the moldering wainscot shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about
(Tennyson, 2005a, p
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ii
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Broken rhyme is not a common form of rhyme in English
poetry, it is rather rarely used by poets to give a unique effect to their metrical representations
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Lear”:
When he walks in a waterproof white,

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The children run after him so!
Calling out, "He's gone out in his nightGown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!"
(Lear, 2005, p
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iii
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The
poems written for children, commonly employ internal rhymes so that they may memorize them
easily
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,…
…Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning
(Poe, 2005a, p
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O darkish light of faint twilight
I feel delight to have thy sight
To have thy sight , to touch thy height
To touch thy height where birds take flight
When there is night, you are out of sight!
(Zay, 2018)
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Imperfect Rhyme (i
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Near Rhyme/ Partial Rhyme/ Impure Rhyme)

Imperfect rhyme is a kind of rhyme in which the vowel phonemes or the consonantal phonemes
of stressed syllables are similar, but not completely identical, thereby only partially fulfilling the
rhyming criteria
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This kind of
rhyme has been employed by many amongst the most famous English poets, including Emily

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Dickinson, Henry Vaughan, William Butler Yeats, William Blake, and Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The example mentioned below, has been taken from William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium”
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The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees,
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas
(Yeats, 2005a, p
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v
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e
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An explanation of this
kind of rhyme, according to some critics, refers
back to etymologies of the words (i
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the kind
of words denoting rhymed patterns, probably
had the same pronunciation, they howbeit,
acquired a different pronunciation in the course
of time)
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Isabella Whitney’s stanza, mentioned below, taken from “A Communication which the Author had
to London…” is another example of eye rhyme in verse:

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…No, no, thou never did'st me good,
nor ever wilt, I know
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146)
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Holorime / Holorhyme

Holorime refers to a kind of rhyme in which, despite difference in orthographic representation, the
rhyming lines are phonetically similar (as in case of words line Grey Day & Grade A)
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g
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Mentioned below is an interesting example of a holorhyme, taken from a poem
entitled: “A Scottish Lowlands Holiday Ends in Enjoyable Inactivity”, written by Miles Kington:

In Ayrshire hill areas, a cruise, eh, lass?
Inertia, hilarious, accrues, hélas!
(Kington, 2007)
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Its supernal melodies unravel the most treasured secrets of the
sublime nature
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Repeated exposure to poetry,
eradicates the agonizing and tormenting thoughts of chaotic world in a beautifully imperceptible
way
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It enlightens the minds of readers, making them cognizant
of profoundly eternal truths, hidden behind the veils of the unseen
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― Carl Sandburg

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References:
Dickinson, E
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death
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, Mary Jo Salter
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry (p
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New York: W
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Norton & Company
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(2005)
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In Margaret Ferguson
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, & Jon Stallworthy (Eds
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145-146)
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W
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Kington, M
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Retrieved from http://www
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co
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html
Lear , E
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How Pleasant to Know Mr
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In Margaret Ferguson
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, & Jon Stallworthy
(Eds
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1043-1044)
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W
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Poe , E
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(2005a)
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In Margaret Ferguson
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, & Jon Stallworthy (Eds
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977-980)
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W
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Raleigh,W
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Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away My Love
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, Mary Jo Salter
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry (p
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New York: W
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Norton & Company
Sonnet XXXII
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Retrieved from http://www
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com/sonnet/32
Tennyson
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Mariana
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, Mary Jo Salter
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The Norton
Anthology of Poetry (pp
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New York: W
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Norton & Company
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(2005)
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In Margaret
Ferguson
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, & Jon Stallworthy (Eds
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146-151)
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W
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Yeats, W
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(2005a)
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In Margaret Ferguson
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, & Jon Stallworthy (Eds
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1199-1200)
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W
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Zay, V
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Decline of a Twilight
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mediafire
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docx



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