More Rhymes
Triple Rhyme
Three syllables in the word rhyme.
Examples:
icicles & bicycles
mathematical & problematical
Rhyming Couplets
Two lines of poetry which have an end-rhyme
Shakespearean Sonnets end with couplets:
130
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
113
Incapable of more, replete with you
My most true mind thus mak'th mine eye untrue.
135
Let 'no' unkind no fair beseechers kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one Will.
133
And yet thou wilt, for I, being pent in thee,
Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.
Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve Merriam
Once upon a time
I caught a little rhyme
I set it on the floor
but it ran right out the door
I chased it on my bicycle
but it melted to an icicle
I scooped it up in my hat
but it turned into a cat
I caught it by the tail
but it stretched into a whale
I followed it in a boat
but it changed into a goat
When I fed it tin and paper
it became a tall skyscraper
Then it grew into a kite
and flew far out of sight ...
Alternate Rhyme (Cross Rhyme)
Neither Out Far nor In Deep by Robert Frost
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?
As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull.
This rhyme scheme is abab,
cdcd, efef, ghgh – each rhyme
skips a line in the stanza.
The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may beThe water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.
Embracing Rhyme (Envelope Rhyme)
The Trees by Philip Larkin
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said.
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
The rhyme scheme
is abba, cddc, effe.
The first & last line
in each stanza
rhyme with each
other & envelop or
embrace the two
center lines.
Chain Rhyme
The poet links stanzas together using rhyme. Some chain rhyme
schemes are:
a
a
a
b
a
a
a
b
b
a
a
b
a
c
b
b
b
b
c
b
c
b
b
d
c
c
c
b
c
b
d
c
c
Tail Rhyme
a There
a can be
b more
lines
c per
c stanza,
b but the
last lines
d or “tails”
d rhyme!
b
e
e
b
Yonder Clouden's silent towers,
Where at moonshine midnight hours
O'er the dewy bending flowers
Fairies dance sae cheery.
Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear;
Thou'rt to Love and Heaven sae dear,
Nocht of ill may come thee near,
My bonnie dearie.
Robert Burns, Scottish Poet