Examples of Rhyme & Sound Devices
TYPES OF RHYME:
End Rhyme: When lines in a rhyme scheme end with the exact sound and spelling.
“Now, at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath,
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,” ~ Michael Drayton, Since There’s No Help
Internal Rhyme: Rhyme that occurs within a line or passage, whether randomly or in some form of pattern.
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
These cherries grow, which none may buy
Till "Cherry Ripe!" themselves do cry.
Slant Rhyme: When the final sounds of rhyming words are closely but not exactly related. They can differ either in spelling or sound.
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.”
~ Emily Dickinson, Hope is the thing with feathers
Sight Rhyme: Rhyme that occurs when words share a similarity in spelling but no in pronunciation and hence, not an auditory rhyme.
i.e. blood, good; how, mow
“Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.” ~ Theodore Roethke, The Waking
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TYPES OF SOUND DEVICES:
Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of sequential or closely connected words.
i.e. weak and weary; as I nodded, nearly napping.
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds at close intervals in poetic meter.
i.e. mad as a hatter; free and easy.
Consonance: The repetition of final consonant sounds.
i.e. odds and ends; a stroke of luck
**DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS IS YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH RHYME & SOUND or MUSICAL DEVICES, I WILL PROVIDE OPEN DEFINITIONS THAT WILL HELP YOU TO FIND MORE EXAMPLES. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE ACTUAL DEFINITIONS ARE A LITTLE MORE STRICT, AND WE WILL WORK TOWARDS THAT LEVEL OF IDENTIFICATION IN THE FUTURE.**
The Poetic Devices of Edgar Allan Poe
Figurative Language—when a thing or idea is described by comparing it to something else that is unalike. The comparison is made to make a unique & interesting point.
Personification--the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Metaphor---a comparison between two things that are essentially unalike.
Allusion—a brief reference to a prior historical event, figure or previously composed and widely known literary work.
Consonance—the repetition of the sound of a consonant in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough so the echo is discernable.
Assonance—the repetition of the sound of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllable near enough so the echo is discernable.
Alliteration—the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
End Rhyme—when words that fall at the end of lines of poetry rhyme exactly (i.e. air & fair)
Slant Rhyme—words that sound the same but don't exactly rhyme (i.e. lover & brother).
Sight Rhyme—words in poetry that are similar in spelling but are different in pronunciation (i.e. height & weight)
Internal Rhyme—a rhyme involving words within the same line or in the middle of sequential lines.