Rhyme
when parts of words/phrases match to sound/look alike
Eye rhyme
Words that rhyme when spelled, but not pronounced
Exact rhyme
Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poemORends of words have identical sounds
Near rhyme
Words come close to rhyming, but don’t really rhyme
End rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another lineORend syllables of two words rhyme
Feminine rhyme
A rhyme of 2 syllables in which the final syllable is untressed(‘mother, ‘brother).
Masculine rhyme
A rhyme of final stressed syllables
Rhyme scheme
rhyming words represented with letters
Terza Rima
Italian poem, 3 tercets and final quatrain
Ballad stanza rhyme
A four-line stanza consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. ABCB rhyme pattern
English sonnet rhyme scheme
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Petrarchan sonnet rhyme scheme
ABBAABBA CDE CDE
Couplet
2 rhyming lines in a stanza
Tercet
group of 3 lines in a stanza
Quatrain
4-line stanza
Sestet
6-line stanza
Heroic couplet
two enstopped rhyming lines
Internal rhyme
1 line: middle word rhymes w/ end word
