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Rhyme Types

This document defines and provides examples of different types of rhymes: 1. Perfect rhyme matches identical vowel and consonant sounds at the end of words, while family rhyme matches similar consonant sounds. 2. Other rhyme types include assonance (matching vowels only), consonance (matching consonants only), additive (adding sounds), and subtractive (subtracting sounds). 3. Internal, feminine, and masculine rhymes occur within lines or with stressed/unstressed syllables. Near and slant rhymes imperfectly match sounds.

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Rhyme Types

This document defines and provides examples of different types of rhymes: 1. Perfect rhyme matches identical vowel and consonant sounds at the end of words, while family rhyme matches similar consonant sounds. 2. Other rhyme types include assonance (matching vowels only), consonance (matching consonants only), additive (adding sounds), and subtractive (subtracting sounds). 3. Internal, feminine, and masculine rhymes occur within lines or with stressed/unstressed syllables. Near and slant rhymes imperfectly match sounds.

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Rhyme Types

• Perfect Rhyme (fully resolved rhyme, Most Resolved) – 1. Vowel sounds are
identical (blood/mud, short “U” sound. 2. If there are consonants after the vowel,
are identical (trees/breeze, final consonant “Z”. 3. The rhyming syllables begin
differently (Mud/Blood). (Fun/sun)
1. Identical vowel sounds
2. Identical consonant sounds following the vowel (if any) (tree/free)
3. The rhyming syllables begin differently.
Identity is repetition, not rhyme – the words begin with the same consonant
(blood/blunt). It gives a sense of repetition.

• Family Rhyme –
1. Identical vowel sounds
2. Consonant sounds (if any) following the vowel are phonetically related.
3. The rhyming syllables begin differently.
Plosives – the air column is interrupted and then the air explodes.
Vocal chords aren’t engaged or unvoiced
P (lips together, then come apart)
T (tip of tongue on soft palette)
K (middle of tongue to soft palette)
Voiced plosives, the vocal chords are engaged
B (lips together)
D (Tip of tongue on soft palette)
G (middle of tongue to soft palette)
ptk (unvoiced), bdg (voiced) = a family
Fricatives (create friction) – impede the air column
Voiced – v TH z zh j
Unvoiced – f th s sh ch
Nasals (sinus cavities) – They are all voiced. The air column drives up your nose. Sound
comes out the nose. (fun/some, fun/rum)
m (lips closed, mouth and sinus cavities to resonate, tongue is flat)
n (tip of tongue to hard palette, takes part of the mouth resonate with sinus cavities)
ng (closes off sound, sends the sound up through nasal cavities, middle of tongue raised)
no family rhyme - l r w y x (no substitutes because they are laterals.
x and s are hybrids. Ch and Tsh. J and dzh. J and ch are not pure, they are hybrids. Y and
w at the end of words don’t exert themselves, only when they begin words.
Plosives Fricatives Nasals
bdg v TH z zh j m n ng
ptk f th s sh ch

Further family relationships through sound formation


M N NG
b d g
p t k
v j x
f ch y
w z
s
l
M – all sounds within the M group are formed with a flat tongue
N – all sound within M group are formed by tip of tongue touching hard palate
NG - all sounds within the NG group are formed by middle of tongue touching soft palate

With TH and th the tongue touches the top teeth and has not close enough relationship. R
has no family relationship.

Words that end in vowels (free, play, grow) are not part of family rhyme
• Additive Rhyme – Adding to the end of a word that the first of the rhyme pair
doesn’t have. Add the least amount of sound possible (cry/bribe or ride). The least
sound creates more stability. Less stable (cry/smile or cry/bribe). The more sound
you add the less stable it becomes.
Longer to shorter lines move forward. Shorter to longer creates more stability.
Same is true for additive rhyme (Free/speed, glow/stove, glow/stove, fit/grits,
fine/resigned, cry/smile). Additive rhymes are more stable because it adds
something that the first word doesn’t have. (fun/lunch)

• Subtractive Rhyme – Subtracting sound from the end of the rhyme pair. This
creates more instability because of the shorter word sound. (speed/free,
stove/glow, resigned/fine, smile/cry). (lunch/fun)
• Assonance Rhyme (always unstable, no full rhyming effect) – 1. the only thing the
words have in common is the vowel sounds. 2. All of the syllables do have ending
consonants, but the ending consonants belong to different phonetic families
(life/tide). Assonance diminishes the feeling of acceleration of a line, it creates less
closure and more instability. (blood/rush, fool/rude, fire/smile). (fun/love)

• Consonance Rhyme – The syllables contain different vowel sounds. The consonants
at the end of the syllables are identical (friend/wind, defense/innocence, one/gone,
one/alone, scars/fears, filled/crawled). (fun/soon, fun/on)
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
A rhyme occurs when two or more words have similar sounds. Typically, this happens at
the end of the words, but this isn't always the case.

Different Types of Rhymes


Here are some of the types of rhymes with examples of each:
• Assonant rhyme - This is the rhyming of vowels in words but with different
consonants. It is sometimes referred to as a slant rhyme. Examples include tip and
limp, dank and bat, bowl and home.
• Consonant rhyme - This is the rhyming of consonants but not vowels. Examples
include bell and ball, dump and damp, meter and miter, mile and mole.
• Dactylic - This rhymes the third syllable from the end. One example is Aristophanes
and cacophonies.
• Eye rhyme - The rhyming in this type is based on spelling and not sound. Examples
are: move and love, cough and bough, food and good, death and wreath.
• Feminine rhyme - Also referred to as double, triple, multiple, extra-syllable, extended,
this has different beginnings of the words, but rhymes latter syllables. Examples
include backing and hacking, tricky and picky, moaning and groaning, generate and
venerate.
• Head rhyme - Also called alliteration or initial rhyme, this has the same initial
consonant at the beginning of the words. Examples are blue and blow, sun and sand,
merry and monkey.
• Identical rhyme - This is rhyming a word with itself, but often refers to a different
meaning. An example is in Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could not Stop for Death.”
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground—
The Roof was scarcely visible—
The Cornice—in the Ground.
• Internal rhyme - The rhyming happens within a line of poetry. This example is from
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
• Light rhyme - Rhyming of syllable where one is stressed and the other is not.
Examples include frog and dialog, mat and combat.
• Macaronic rhyme - This rhymes words from different languages. Examples are villa
and manilla, amore and favor, sure and kreatur, lay and lei, sitar and guitar.
• Masculine rhyme - In this rhyme, the stress in on the final syllable in both words.
Examples include support and report, dime and sublime, divulge and bulge.
• Near rhyme - Also referred to as half, slant, approximate, off, and oblique, this rhymes
the final consonants but not the vowels or initial consonants. Examples are bent and
rant, quick and back.
• Oblique - This is an imperfect rhyme because the sounds do not quite match.
Sometimes these are called half, approximate, near, off, or slant rhymes. Examples are
lap and shape, fiend and mean, gun and thumb.
• Perfect rhyme - Sometimes called exact, full or true, this rhyme is the typical rhyme
where the ending sounds match. Examples are cat and hat, egg and beg, ink and pink,
boo and true, soap and dope.
• Rich rhyme - In this case, the words are pronounced the same but have different
meanings, like homonyms. Examples include raise and raze, break and brake, vary and
very, lessen and lesson.
• Scarce rhyme - This refers to words that have very few other words that rhyme with
them. Examples are lips and whisp, oceanless and motionless.
• Semirhyme - In this rhyme, one word has and extra syllable. Examples are mend and
ending, rye and buying, lick and pickle.
• Syllabic - Rhyming the last syllable, this is also called tail or end rhyme. Examples
include beaver and silver, dancing and prancing.
• Wrenched rhyme - This is an imperfect rhyme which rhymes a stressed with an
unstressed syllable. Examples are caring and wing, lady and a bee.

Rhyme in Verse
Examples of rhyming in verses:
• Alternating rhyme, crossed rhyme, or interlocking rhyme: Rhyming pattern is ABAB
• Intermittent rhyme: Every other line rhymes
• Envelope rhyme or inserted rhyme: Rhyming pattern ABBA
• Irregular rhyme: No fixed pattern to the rhyming
• Sporadic rhyme or occasional rhyme: Unpredictable pattern with mostly unrhymed
lines
• Thorn line: A line that does not rhyme in a passage that usually rhymes
Now you know all different types of rhymes.

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