An Introduction to Rhyme

An Introduction to Rhyme

An Introduction To Rhyme (ISBN 1-85725-124-5) is a book by Peter Dale which was published by Agenda/Bellew in 1998. The first chapter gives a detailed and comprehensive categorization of forty types of rhyme available in English.

Traditional Pure Rhyme

Dale identifies the following varieties of Traditional Pure Rhyme:
# Single Pure Rhyme (example: "cat" / "mat")
# Double Pure Rhyme (example: "silly" / "Billy")
# Triple Pure Rhyme (example: "mystery" / "history")
# Eye rhyme (example: "love" / "move")
# Near rhyme (example: "breath" / "deaf")
# Wrenched stress rhyme (example: "bent" / "firmament")
# Wrenched Sense Rhyme

Pararhyme

Dale identifies the following varieties of Pararhyme:
# Single Pararhyme (example: "hill" / "Hell")
# Double Pararhyme (example: "Satan" / "satin")
# Triple Pararhyme (example: "summery" / "Samurai")
# Double Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: "lover" / "liver")
# Triple Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: "mystery" / "mastery")
# Near Pararhyme (example: "live" / "leaf")

Assonance Rhyme

Dale identifies the following varieties of Assonance Rhyme:
# Single Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: "feast" / "feed")
# Double Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: "fever" / "feature")
# Triple Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: "rosary" / "ropery")

Pure Assonance Rhyme

# Single Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: "leaves" / "feast")
# Double Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: "babies" / "lady")
# Triple Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: "Cerements" / "temperance")

Consonance Rhyme

Dale identifies the following types of Consonance rhyme:
# Head rhyme (example: "leaves" / "lance")
# Final consonance also known as Half rhyme (example: "spot" / "cut")

yllable Rhyme

Dale identifies the following types of Syllable Rhyme:
# Pure Syllable Rhyme (example: "belfry" / "selfish")
# Syllable Pararhyme (example: "tractive" / "truckle")
# Syllable Assonance (example: "shadow" / "matter")
# Syllable Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: "shadow" / "shackle");

Uneven Rhyme

Dale describes three types of Uneven Rhyme:
# Simple Uneven Rhyme (example: "ten" / "oven")
# Uneven Rhyme combined with Pararhyme (example: "pen" / "open")
# Uneven Rhyme with Reduced Stress (example: "house-boat" / "top-coat")

Other types of rhyme

Dale also identifies the following types of rhyme:
# Light rhyme (rhyme on unstressed syllables; example: "shallow" / "minnow')
# Consonant chime (example from Dylan Thomas: "ferrule" / "folly" / "angle" / "valley" / "coral" / "mile")
# Alternation (alternation of masculine and feminine endings, a sort of rhymthmic rhyme)
# Analytic rhyme (complex patterns, example of pararhyme "abba" and assonance "abab" in Auden: "began" / "flush" / "flash" / "gun")
# Off-Centred rhyme (placing rhyme in unexpected places mid-line)
# Mirror rhyme (example: "nude" / "dune")
# Generic rhyme (rhyme based on phonetic groups of consonants; example: "father" / "harder" / "carver")
# Cynghanedd
# Echo rhyme (example, line ending in "disease? Ease.")
# Identity rhyme (repetition of word)
# Repetition (repetition of line)
# Spatial rhyme


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