Editing Rhyme (section)

==Types of rhyme==
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The word ''rhyme'' can be used in a specific and a general sense. In the specific sense, two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical; two lines of [[poetry]] rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words. Examples are ''sight'' and ''flight'', ''deign'' and ''gain'', ''madness'' and ''sadness'', ''love'' and ''dove''.

===Perfect rhymes===
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Perfect rhymes can be classified by the location of the final stressed syllable.

* '''single''', also known as [[masculine rhyme|masculine]]: a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (''rhyme'', ''sublime'')
* '''double''', also known as [[Feminine rhyme|feminine]]: a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (''picky'', ''tricky'')
* '''[[Dactyl (poetry)|dactylic]]:''' a rhyme in which the stress is on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable (''amorous'', ''glamorous'')

Feminine and dactylic rhymes may also be realized as compound (or mosaic) rhymes (''poet'', ''know it'').

===General rhymes===
In the general sense, ''general rhyme'' can refer to various kinds of phonetic similarity between words, and the use of such similar-sounding words in organizing verse. Rhymes in this general sense are classified according to the degree and manner of the phonetic similarity:

* '''[[syllable rhyme|syllabic]]:''' a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not necessarily contain stressed vowels. (''cleaver'', ''silver'', or ''pitter'', ''patter''; the final syllable of the words ''bottle'' and ''fiddle'' is {{IPA|/l/}}, a [[liquid consonant]].)
* '''imperfect (or near):''' a rhyme between a stressed and an unstressed syllable. (''wing'', ''caring'')
* '''weak (or unaccented):''' a rhyme between two sets of one or more unstressed syllables. (''hammer'', ''carpenter'')
* '''semirhyme:''' a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. (''bend'', ''ending'')
* '''forced (or oblique):''' a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (''green'', ''fiend''; ''one'', ''thumb'')
* '''[[assonance]]:''' matching vowels. (''sh'''a'''ke'', ''h'''a'''te'') Assonance is sometimes referred to as slant rhymes, along with consonance.
* '''[[literary consonance|consonance]]:''' matching consonants. ('''''r'''a'''b'''ie'''s''', '''r'''o'''bb'''er'''s''''')
*'''[[half rhyme]]''' (or '''slant rhyme'''): matching final consonants. (''ha'''nd ''', le'''nd''''')
* '''[[pararhyme]]:''' all consonants match. (''tick'', ''tock'')
* '''[[alliteration]]''' (or '''head rhyme'''): matching initial consonants. ('''''sh'''ip'', '''''sh'''ort'')

===Identical rhymes===
Identical rhymes are considered less than perfect in English poetry; but are valued more highly in other literatures such as, for example, ''[[rime riche]]'' in French poetry.

Though [[homophone]]s and [[homonym]]s satisfy the first condition for rhyming—that is, that the stressed vowel sound is the same—they do not satisfy the second: that the preceding consonant be different. In a perfect rhyme, the last stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical in both words.

If the sound preceding the stressed vowel is also identical, the rhyme is sometimes considered to be inferior and not a perfect rhyme after all.<ref name="myclasses">{{cite web|url=http://myclasses.net/smiser/cwp/rhyme.html|title=Rhyme, which cites ''Whitfield's University Rhyming Dictionary'', 1951 |publisher=myclasses.net|access-date=2015-08-25}}</ref><ref name="michael-thomas">{{cite web|url=http://www.michael-thomas.com/music/songwriting/rhyming.htm|title=Rhyming and Songwriting|publisher=michael-thomas.com|access-date=2015-08-25}}</ref> An example of such a ''super-rhyme'' or "more than perfect rhyme" is the ''identical rhyme'', in which not only the vowels but also the onsets of the rhyming syllables are identical, as in ''gun'' and ''begun''. Punning rhymes, such as ''bare'' and ''bear'' are also identical rhymes. The rhyme may extend even farther back than the last stressed vowel. If it extends all the way to the beginning of the line, so that there are two lines that sound very similar or identical, it is called a ''[[holorhyme]]'' ("For I scream/For ice cream").

In poetics these would be considered ''identity'', rather than rhyme.

===Eye rhyme===
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Eye rhymes or sight rhymes or spelling rhymes refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound where the final sounds are spelled identically but pronounced differently.<ref name=Stillman />  Examples in English are ''cough'', ''bough'', and ''love'', ''move''.

Some early written poetry appears to contain these, but in many cases the words used rhymed at the time of writing, and subsequent changes in pronunciation have meant that the rhyme is now lost.

===Mind rhyme===
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Mind rhyme is a kind of substitution rhyme similar to [[rhyming slang]], but it is less generally codified and is "heard" only when generated by a specific verse context. For instance, "this sugar is neat / and tastes so sour." If a reader or listener thinks of the word "sweet" instead of "sour",  a mind rhyme has occurred.

===Classification by position===
Rhymes may be classified according to their position in the verse:
*'''Tail rhyme''' (also called '''end rhyme''' or '''rime couée''') is a rhyme in the final syllable(s) of a verse (the most common kind).
*'''[[Internal rhyme]]''' occurs when a word or phrase in the interior of a line rhymes with a word or phrase at the end of a line, or within a different line.
*'''[[Off-centered rhyme]]''' is a type of internal rhyme occurring in unexpected places in a given line. This is sometimes called a misplaced-rhyme scheme or a [[spoken word]] rhyme style.
*'''[[Holorime]]''', mentioned above, occurs when two entire lines have the same sound.
*'''Echo rhyme''' occurs when the same syllable endings are utilized (example: disease/ease). 
*'''[[Broken rhyme]]''' is a type of [[enjambement]] producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line.
*'''Cross rhyme''' matches a sound or sounds at the end of a line with the same sound or sounds in the middle of the following (or preceding) line.<ref name=Stillman />

A [[rhyme scheme]] is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.