Rhyme Glossary - Rhyming Types
To view types of rhyme usage see: Rhyme Usage Glossary
This page is specifically about types of rhymes. These will help you create more variety in your poems and lyrics.
- Assonant rhyme
- Rhyming of similar vowels but different consonants.
example: dip/limp - Consonant rhyme
- Similar consonants but different vowels.
example: limp/lump - Eye rhyme
- Based on spelling and not on sound.
example: love/move - Feminine rhyme (double, triple, extra-syllable, multi-syllable, extended)
- Differing beginnings followed by multiple rhyming syllables.
example: drinking/shrinking - Identical rhyme
- Uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning.
- Light line
- Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress.
example: mat/combat - Macaronic rhyme
- Rhyming of two words with different languages.
- Masculine rhyme
- Differing consonant sounds ending with identically stressed syllables.
example: report/support - Near rhyme (half, slant, approximate, off, oblique)
- Final consonant sounds the same but initial consonants and vowel sounds are different.
example: tought/sat - Perfect rhyme (exact, true, full)
- Begins with different sounds and end with the same.
example: pie/die - Rich rhyme (French for rime riche)
- Word that rhymes with its homonym.
example: blue/blew - Scarce rhyme
- Rhyming of words with limited rhyming alternatives.
example: whisp/lisp - Wrenched rhyme
- A stressed syllable with an unstressed one (occurs most often in ballads and folk poetry).
example: lady/a bee