sea and seal, ship and short etc.Įye Rhymes, also called sight or spelling rhymes, refer to words having the same spelling but different sounds. rabbit and robber, ship and sheepĪlliteration or Head Rhyme refers to matching initial consonant sounds e.g. kill and bill, wall and hall, shake and hate etc.Ĭonsonance exist in words having the same consonant sound e.g. a rhyme between a stressed and an unstressed syllable.Īssonance or Slant Rhyme exists in words having the same vowel sound e.g. Wing and caring, sit and perfect, reflect and subject etc, are examples of imperfect rhyme i.e. words having a similar sounding last syllable but without a stressed vowel The term general rhyme refers to a variety of phonetic likeness between words.īottle and fiddle, cleaver and silver, patter and pitter etc.
sight and light, right and might, rose and dose etc. Poems written in English employ the following kinds of rhyme:Ī perfect rhyme is a case in which two words rhyme in such a way that their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical e.g. It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.Īnd so the teacher turned it out, but still it lingered near,Īnd waited patiently about till Mary did appear. It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow Īnd everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. Below are a few nursery rhyme examples with rhyming words in bold and italics:Īnd one for the little boy who lives down the lane.Īll the King’s horses, And all the King’s men We do not seem to forget the nursery rhymes we learnt as a kid. For instance, all nursery rhymes contain rhyming words in order to facilitate learning for children as they enjoy reading them and the presence of repetitive patterns enables them to memorize that particular poem effortlessly. Moreover, it offers itself as a mnemonic device smoothing the progress of memorization. A rhyme is employed for the specific purpose of rendering a pleasing effect to a poem which makes its recital an enjoyable experience. A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs.Ī rhyme is a tool utilizing repeating patterns that brings rhythm or musicality in poems which differentiate them from prose which is plain.