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Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick :
Bouts-Rimés. Bouts-Rimés ( French, literally 'rhymed-ends') is the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison in the Spectator as "lists of words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another hand, and given to a poet, who was to make a poem to the rhymes in the same order that they were placed upon the list".
Rhyme. A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming ( perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]
Multisyllabic rhymes. In rapping and poetry, multisyllabic rhymes (also known as compound [1] [2] [3] rhymes, polysyllable [1] [4] [5] rhymes, and sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multis [1]) are rhymes that contain two or more syllables [1] [6] An example is as follows: I've got a bad taste / It gives me mad haste.
The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes —that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.
Perfect and imperfect rhymes. Perfect rhyme — also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [1] or true rhyme — is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [2] [3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words "kit" and "bit" form a perfect ...
Rhyming dictionary. A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another. They also typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well.
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...