Rhyme
The repetition of identical or similar sounds, usually accented vowel sounds and succeeding consonant sounds at the end of words, and often at the ends of lines of prose or poetry.
For example, in the following lines from a poem by A.E. Housman, the last words of both lines rhyme with each other.
- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
- Is hung with bloom along the bough
Read more about this topic: Stylistic Device, Sound Techniques
Famous quotes containing the word rhyme:
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“The rhyme of the poet
Modulates the king’s affairs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I’ll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and suppers
and sleeping-hours excepted.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)