Types of Rhymes

Oh, I kept the first for another day!/ Yet knowing how way leads on to way,/ I doubted if I should ever come back.

• alliteration

• internal rhyme

• perfect rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

…Left blooming alone;

All her lovely companions

…Are faded and gone…

• cross rhyme

• eye rhyme

• tail rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

• alliteration

• assonance

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

• assonance

• consonance

• cross rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore…

• alliteration

• assonance

• eye rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

We lash with the best or worst/

Word last! How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe/

Will, mouthed to flesh-burst,/

Gush!—flush the man, the being with it, sour or sweet,/

Brim, in a flash, full!

• consonance

• eye rhyme

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

• internal rhyme

• perfect rhyme

• tail rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool,/

In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,/

He was splashing... enjoying the jungle's great joys.../

When Horton the elephant heard a small noise

• cross rhyme

• eye rhyme

• tail rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…

• alliteration

• eye rhyme

• perfect rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground…

• assonance

• consonance

• cross rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4