perfect rhyme
Matching final sounds
Perfect rhyme is the most complete form of rhyme, where the final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical: cat/hat, despair/compare, intention/convention.
This is the rhyme most people mean when they say two words rhyme.
Also called full rhyme or true rhyme, in contrast to near rhyme or slant rhyme.
Two successive verse lines
- verseMetered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- limerickComedic five-line poem
ballad · quatrain · villanelle · sestina · ode · haiku · meter · iambic
Vowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- identicalExactly the same
- matchingIdentical in appearance
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
echo · chime · ring · homophone · pronunciation · phoneme · stressed syllable · sonic
couplet
Two successive verse lines
limerick · ballad · quatrain · villanelle · sestina · ode · haiku · meter · iambic · trochaic
assonance
Vowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- identicalExactly the same
- matchingIdentical in appearance
vowel · echo · chime · ring · homophone · pronunciation · phoneme · stressed syllable · sonic · resonance
- rhyme gamesword families
- Rhymesnight-light, true-blue, couplet
- poetry termspoetry, verse, rhythm, meter, beat
- poetic devicesalliteration, assonance, consonance, simile, metaphor
- RhymeABBA, monorhyme, couplet, couplets
- coupletsheroic couplet
perfect rhymeslant rhyme
Approximate sound correspondence
near rhyme · half rhyme · imperfect rhyme · consonance · assonance
perfect rhymefree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
blank verse · unrhymed · prose · dissonance · cacophony
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