What are the kinds of rhymes?
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(based on link below, see it for fuller definitions and examples):
Perfect rhyme
* Masculine rhyme (last syllable stressed)
* Feminine rhyme
* Identical rhyme (same words, different meanings)
* Rich rhyme/”rime riche” (word and its homonym , sea/see)
* Macaronic rhyme (words from different languages)
Near rhyme (half, slant, approximate, off, oblique)
* Assonance (matches only vowels – update/subway)
* Consonance (matches only consonants – miss/mass)
* Light line (stressed syllable with secondary stress)
* Wrenched rhyme (stressed syllable with unstressed)
Eye rhyme (spelling matches, not sound)
http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/rhyme-glossary.php
For other classifications see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme#Types_of_rhyme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dale’s_classification_of_rhymes
“Partial rhyme” is “close enough for poetic license” (fault/ought)
“Eye rhyme” is a rhyme that does not exist in sound at all, “but only in sight (tough/cough)
“Half rhyme” is a match between final consonants, but a miss on the vowels (bits/bats)
“Masculine rhyme” is one-syllable rhyme (near/clear)
“Feminine rhyme” is a rhyme of more than one syllable, both stressed and unstressed (creature/feature)
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