Poetry Rhyme Types

The pronunciation is not the same but it is written similar.

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

The pronunciation of the end words are identical

• Slant rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Exact rhyme

The pronunciation of the end words are similar but not identical; it is imperfect.

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

• Exact rhyme

I have met them at close of day

Coming with vivid faces*

From counter or desk among grey

Eighteenth-century houses*.

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

…Left blooming alone*;

All her lovely companions

…Are faded and gone*;

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

The crowd was tense*,

The team was on defense*,

The pass was good**,

Everyone stood**.

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

“I think I’ll shall never see,

A poem as lovely as a tree.”

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

Scatter, as from an unextinguish’d hearth*

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth*

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

This latest Leisure equal lulls

The Beggar and his Queen*

Propitiate this Democrat

A Summer's Afternoon* —

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme

If it looks similar but sound different we have...?

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Slant rhyme