An Introduction to Rhyme

An Introduction To Rhyme (ISBN 1-85725-124-5) is a book by Peter Dale which was published by Agenda/Bellew in 1998. The first chapter gives a detailed and comprehensive categorization of forty types of rhyme available in English.

Traditional pure rhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Traditional Pure Rhyme:
 * 1) Single Pure Rhyme (example: cat / mat)
 * 2) Double Pure Rhyme (example: silly / Billy)
 * 3) Triple Pure Rhyme (example: mystery / history)
 * 4) Eye rhyme (example: love / move)
 * 5) Near rhyme (example: breath / deaf)
 * 6) Wrenched stress rhyme (example: bent / firmament)
 * 7) Wrenched Sense Rhyme

Pararhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Pararhyme:
 * 1) Single Pararhyme (example: hill / Hell)
 * 2) Double Pararhyme (example: Satan / satin)
 * 3) Triple Pararhyme (example: summery / Samurai)
 * 4) Double Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: lover / liver)
 * 5) Triple Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: mystery / mastery)
 * 6) Near Pararhyme (example: live / leaf)

Assonance rhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Assonance Rhyme:
 * 1) Single Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: feast / feed)
 * 2) Double Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: fever / feature)
 * 3) Triple Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: rosary / ropery)

Pure assonance rhyme

 * 1) Single Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: leaves / feast)
 * 2) Double Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: babies / lady)
 * 3) Triple Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: Cerements / temperance)

Consonance rhyme
Dale identifies the following types of Consonance rhyme:
 * 1) Head rhyme (example: leaves / lance)
 * 2) Final consonance also known as Half rhyme (example: spot / cut)

Syllable rhyme
Dale identifies the following types of syllable rhyme:
 * 1) Pure Syllable Rhyme (example: belfry / selfish)
 * 2) Syllable Pararhyme (example: tractive / truckle)
 * 3) Syllable Assonance (example: shadow / matter)
 * 4) Syllable Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: shadow / shackle);

Uneven rhyme
Dale describes three types of Uneven Rhyme:
 * 1) Simple Uneven Rhyme (example: ten / oven)
 * 2) Uneven Rhyme combined with Pararhyme (example: pen / open)
 * 3) Uneven Rhyme with Reduced Stress (example: house-boat / top-coat)

Other types of rhyme
Dale also identifies the following types of rhyme:
 * 1) Light rhyme (rhyme on unstressed syllables; example: shallow / minnow)
 * 2) Consonant chime (example from Dylan Thomas: ferrule / folly / angle / valley / coral / mile)
 * 3) Alternation (alternation of masculine and feminine endings, a sort of rhythmic rhyme)
 * 4) Analytic rhyme (complex patterns, example of pararhyme ABBA and assonance ABAB in Auden: began / flush / flash / gun)
 * 5) Off-centred rhyme (placing rhyme in unexpected places mid-line)
 * 6) Mirror rhyme (example: nude / dune)
 * 7) Generic rhyme (rhyme based on phonetic groups of consonants; example: father / harder / carver)
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 * 9) Echo rhyme (example, line ending in disease? Ease.)
 * 10) Identity rhyme (repetition of word)
 * 11) Repetition (repetition of line)
 * 12) Spatial rhyme