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Eye-rhyme (sight-rhyme)--contains identical letters while vowel sounds are pronounced
differently (love-grove, farm-warm). It is a property of the written poem.
Internal or inner rhymes occur within a poetic line (I am the daughter of earth and
water... Byron)
Head rhymes are rather uncommon. It connects the end of a line with the beginning of
the next one by similar sound combinations (The sunlight on the garden hardens and
grows cold...MacNiece). It may also appear in the form of stringing together lines
beginning with the same sound, or syllable, or word (He the strongest of all mortals, he
the mightiest among many... Longfellow)
According to the arrangement of rhymes in stanzas, rhymes fall into:
· Couplets--when two lines are rhythmically linked by the final rhyme (a a)
· Cross rhymes--a b a b
· Frame rhymes--a b b a
· Monorhymes--a a a a a a
Blank verse--no rhyme
8. Lexical stylistic devices