half rhyme
Imperfect poetic echo
Half rhyme is rhyme where the consonant sounds match but the vowels differ: love/have, eyes/light, grown/moon.
Also called slant rhyme or near rhyme.
Poets use half rhyme to create subtler sonic effects than perfect rhyme, or to avoid forced-sounding word choices.
Emily Dickinson employed it extensively.
- assonanceVowel sound repetition
- sound patternRecurring arrangement of tones
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
- lyric poetryMusical personal verse form
- diphthongComplex vowel gliding between positions
Emily Dickinson · phoneme · iamb · prosody · alliteration · meter · sonnet · poetic device · wordplay · quatrain · subtlety · syllable stress · stressed syllable · stanza · ottava rima · consonance · Wilfred Owen · repetition
- poetic devicesalliteration, assonance, consonance, simile, metaphor
- poetic soundassonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony, onomatopoeia
- RhymeABBA, monorhyme, couplet, couplets
- near rhymes
phonetic completeness of rhyme
half rhymeperfect rhyme
Identical stressed syllable endings
exact rhyme · free verse · prose · unrhymed · blank verse
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