Rhyme Literary Devices

Question 0

Leonine Rhyme

Answer 0

The internal rhyming of the last stressed syllable before the caesura,
​With the last stressed syllable of the line. Also called Internal Rhyme. Example:
​​Ex. There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield.

Question 1

End Rhyme

Answer 1

Rhyme at the ends of lines in a poem. The most common type of rhyme.
​​Ex.​Hickory, dickory dock,
​​​The mouse ran up the clock.

Question 2

Slant Rhyme

Answer 2

The repetition in accented syllables of the final consonant sound without the
​correspondence of the preceding vowel sound. Also called “near rhyme”, “oblique
​rhyme”, “off-rhyme”, and “pararhyme”.
​​Ex.​He doth really love,
​​​I hope it is enough.

Question 3

Beginning Rhyme

Answer 3

Rhyme that occurs in the first syllable or syllables of lines.
​​Ex.​Why should I have returned?
​​​My knowledge would not fit into theirs.
​​​I found untouched the desert of the unknown.

Question 4

Crossed Rhyme

Answer 4

A term applied to couplets which the words preceding the caesura rhyme.
​Example:​abab rhyme scheme . . . . or two lines of leonine rhyme scheme abab
​​Ex. ​Roses are red,b​​A​ or​It is night, and all’s well​ AB
​​​Violets are blue,​ B​​bOut of sight, tolls a bell. ​AB
​​​Your beau said,​A
​​​He loves you.​​B

Question 5

Eye Rhyme

Answer 5

Rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but is not so from the pronunciation.
​​Ex.​From their perch did they wearily watch,
​​​None would dare to even strike a match.

Question 6

Masculine Rhyme

Answer 6

Rhyme that falls on the stressed concluding syllables of the rhyme words.
Most common rhyme in English. In simplest terms, this is the type of rhyme you are most familiar with of these two. This works only with the last single sound of each word.
​​Ex.​Would you like them in a house?
​​​Would you like them with a mouse?
​​​I would not like them in a house.
​​​I would not like them with a mouse.

Question 7

Feminine Rhyme

Answer 7

A rhyme in which the rhyming stressed syllables are followed by an
​undifferentiated identical unstressed syllable. (This type of rhyme works with the
​same sounds of words that may include more than the last syllable.) ​​
Ex. ​Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony,
​Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.

Question 8

Heteromerous Rhyme

Answer 8

A rare species of multiple rhyme (also called “mosaic”) in which
typically one word is forced into a rhyme with two or more words.
Ex. ​Oh! Ye lords of ladies intellectual,
​Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?

Question 9

Broken Rhyme

Answer 9

The breaking of a word at the end of a line for the sake of a rhyme.  This is
​a form of enjambment.
​Ex.​‘Neath this blow,​
​​Worse than stab o’ dagger,
​​Though we mo-
​​mentarily stagger.

​​and/or

​​Your reader, you should show him,
​​Must take what information he
​​Can get, and look for no im-
​​mature disclosure of the drift