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  2. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines ...

  3. Perfect and imperfect rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Perfect rhyme (also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [1] or true rhyme) is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [2] [3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words kit and bit form a perfect rhyme, as do spaghetti and already in ...

  4. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Following the rhyme scheme of the Villanelle, but with 5 extra couplets just after each tercet. Cinquain: rhyme scheme ABABB. Clerihew: rhyme scheme AABB. Enclosed rhyme (aka enclosing rhyme): ABBA. Ghazal: AA BA CA DA; Kural: Tamil verse form; Limerick: AABBA. Monorhyme: an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic: AAAAA.

  5. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]

  6. Internal rhyme - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. [1] [2] By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme. Internal rhyme schemes can be denoted with spaces or commas between lines. For example, "ac,ac,ac" denotes a three-line poem ...

  7. Terza rima - Wikipedia

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    Terza rima (/ ˌ t ɛər t s ə ˈ r iː m ə /, also US: / ˌ t ɜːr-/, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [ˈtɛrtsa ˈriːma]; lit. ' third rhyme ') is a rhyming verse form, in which the poem, or each poem-section, consists of tercets (three-line stanzas) with an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: The last word of the second line in one tercet provides the rhyme for the first and third lines in the ...

  8. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    Rilke's own sonnets are fluidly structured as a transposition of the dead girl's dancing and encompass themes of life and death and art's relation to them. As well as having varied rhyme schemes, line lengths also vary and are irregularly metred, even within the same sonnet at times. [121]

  9. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    It is embedded with intricate rhyme schemes and an irregular number of lines of considerable length. Written with a rich and intense expression, an ode is structured to deliver an elevated thought to praise a person or object. “Ode to a Nightingale” is an example. Rondeau–A fixed form used in light or witty verses. It consists of fifteen ...