Rhyme

Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.[

Eye rhymes or sight rhymes or spelling rhymes refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound where the final sounds are spelled identically but pronounced differently.[4] Examples in English are cough, bough, and love, move.

Internal rhyme occurs when a word or phrase in the interior of a line rhymes with a word or phrase at the end of a line, or within a different line.

Masculine rhyme – no unstressed follows the stressed syllable : book/took

Feminine rhyme – one or several unstressed syllables follow the stressed syllable: agitation/celebration

Rhythm

The word rhythm is derived from rhythmos (Greek) which means, “measured motion”. Rhythm is a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form.

Types of rhythm:

Iambic – made up of 2 syllables, first syllable is unstressed, second syllable stressed

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Trochaic

It has two syllables. The first syllable is strongly stressed while the second syllable is unstressed, as given below.

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers”

Dactyl (/ x x)

Dactyl is made up of three syllables. The first syllable is stressed and the remaining two syllables are not stressed such as the word “marvelous”. For example:

“This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,”
(Evangeline by Longfellow)

The words “primeval” and “murmuring” show dactyls in this line.

Anapest (x x /)

Anapests are totally opposites of the dactyls. They have three syllables; where the first two syllables are not stressed while the last syllable is stressed. For example:

“Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,”

Amphibrach

It has 3 syllables, the middle syllable is stressed

All ready / to put up / the tents for / my circus.

I think I / will call it / the Circus / McGurkus.