rhyme
Poetry's sonic echo
Rhyme is the matching of sounds at the ends of words or lines—*cat* and *hat*, *moon* and *June*.
Poetry traditionally relies on rhyme schemes, though modern verse often doesn't.
Rhyme extends to the poems themselves: nursery rhymes, children's rhymes.
The phrase without rhyme or reason means without logic or sense.
To rhyme is to form such sound matches: Does "orange" rhyme with anything?
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- limerickComedic five-line poem
ballad · haiku · ode · doggerel · lyric · meter · iambic · pentameter
Verse with identical endings
- assonanceVowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- alliterationMatching initial consonants
- homophoneIdentically pronounced, differently spelled word
couplet · triplet · quatrain · multisyllabic
Written words for music
- chorusSingers performing together
- refrainAbstain from acting
- jingleBrief advertising melody
- dittyShort, simple song
carol · chantey · rap · flow · bars · hook · serenade · lullaby
Speak from memory
- chantRepetitive rhythmic phrase
- intoneRecite in singsong
- vocalizeProduce sounds aloud
- performExecute or present
declaim · orate · enunciate · cadence · flow · delivery · intonation · articulate
verse
Metered poetic passage
limerick · ballad · haiku · ode · doggerel · lyric · meter · iambic · pentameter · quatrain
monorhyme
Verse with identical endings
- assonanceVowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- alliterationMatching initial consonants
homophone · couplet · triplet · quatrain · multisyllabic
lyrics
Written words for music
ditty · carol · chantey · rap · flow · bars · hook · serenade · lullaby · anthem
recite
Speak from memory
perform · declaim · orate · enunciate · cadence · flow · delivery · intonation · articulate · inflection
pun
Wordplay using double meanings
freestyle · improvise · spitting · bars · flow · setup · scheme · multisyllabic · tongue-twister · Eminem
logic
Science of valid reasoning
pattern · order · method · meaning · coherence · justification · explanation
- word gamescrossword, Scrabble, crossword puzzle, anagram, word game
- literary elementsplot, character, setting, theme, narrator
- literary formsnovel, novels, novella, poetry, poetry collections
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- books and reading poetrypoetry, poems, verse, sonnets, haiku
- memorizationrote learning, cramming, mnemonics, rehearsal, by heart
rhymeprose
Unversified language
free verse · blank verse · stream of consciousness · prose poem · spoken word
- nursery rhymesTraditional poems for toddlers
- rhythm sectionsBeat-keeping instrumentalists
- rhythm and bluesPostwar Black popular music
- rhyme or reasonLogical basis or pattern
- perfect rhymeIdentical stressed syllable endings
- rhyming gamesWord-sound matching activities
rhythm, rhymes, rhyming, rhymed, rhymester, rhymeless, arrhythmic, rhyme scheme, rhyme schemes