exact rhyme
Sound-identical line endings
Exact rhyme is the correspondence of sounds at the end of words where both the vowel and final consonants match: cat/hat, moon/June, spelling/dwelling.
This is the standard type of rhyme in traditional English verse, distinguished from near rhyme or slant rhyme, where sounds only approximate each other.
Two successive verse lines
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- limerickComedic five-line poem
- quatrainFour-line poetic unit
- balladNarrative poem or song
ode · verse · stanza · refrain · villanelle · rondel · doggerel · lyric
Without any flaw
- pureUnmixed, without impurities
- trueAccurate or loyal
- fullMaximum extent reached
- masculineMale in character
feminine · identical · rich · complete · terminal · end · tail · couplet
Vowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- homophoneIdentically pronounced, differently spelled word
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
- syllableUnit of pronunciation
phoneme · pronunciation · intonation · resonance · harmony · acoustic · sonic · auditory
couplet
Two successive verse lines
ballad · ode · verse · stanza · refrain · villanelle · rondel · doggerel · lyric · light verse
perfect
Without any flaw
masculine · feminine · identical · rich · complete · terminal · end · tail · couplet · scheme
assonance
Vowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- homophoneIdentically pronounced, differently spelled word
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
syllable · phoneme · pronunciation · intonation · resonance · harmony · acoustic · sonic · auditory · matching
slant
Oblique angle or bias
oblique · approximate · forced · wrenched · false · broken · weak · partial
exact rhymeslant rhyme
Approximate sound correspondence
near rhyme · half rhyme · imperfect rhyme · consonance · assonance
exact rhymefree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
blank verse · prose · dissonance · cacophony
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