Types of Rhyme (with examples)

Types of rhyme

There are different types of rhyme and they can be classified according to how the sound is repeated, according to the accentuation of the rhyming words and according to the arrangement of the verses. For instance: assonance rhyme, oxytone rhyme, consonant rhyme.

The rhyme it is the exact or similar repetition of a sound that is generally found at the end of two or more verses. This repetition is established from the last stressed vowel. For instance: songon and meditatedon.

Rhyme is mostly used in poetry, but it also appears in songs, in sayings, sayings and some Word games and with it we try to create a sound and aesthetic effect.

Types of rhyme

Types of rhyme according to how the sound is repeated

The repetition can be set between two or more identical or similar sounds:

Types of rhyme according to the accentuation of the rhyming words

Rhymes can be classified according to whether the rhyming words are sharp, deep, or esdrújulas.

Types of rhyme according to the arrangement

Rhymes can be classified according to the location of the verses. For example, a verse can rhyme with the next, with the third or with the fourth.

Examples of types of rhyme

1. Rhyme

Cry hearton, (to)
that you are rooton. (to)

(Luis de Góngora)

1. Assonance rhyme

You were barely dated
from the gardens of Ttorfand, (to)
when did you do yours
and from my misery totordand. (to)

(Lope de Vega)

1. Oxytone rhyme

You who, for our damnad, (to)
you took shape servil (b)
and under name;
you, that your divinityad (to)
you got together so vil (b)

(Jorge Manrique)

1. Paroxitone rhyme

I have walked many roads,
I have opened many seeandgivess; (to)
I have sailed a hundred seas,
and docked at a hundred ribandrtos. (to)

(Antonio Machado)

1. Proparoxytone rhyme

Where does the brújorlto?
Will it be to the mountain púrporrto?

1. Twin or paired rhyme.

Barbey recounts, in verses that are worth his prbear, (TO)
a feat of the Cid, fresh as a rbear, (TO)
pure as a pearl. They are not heard in the beamAna (B)
resound in the wind the trumpets of EspAna, (B)
nor did the embarrassed Moor abandon the storesona (C)
seeing Tiz's soul of steel in the sunona. (C)

(Ruben Dario)

1. Hugging rhyme

While for competing with your cabit, (TO)
burnished gold, the sun shines in vyear, (B)
while with contempt in the middle the llyear (B)
look at your white forehead the lilio bit; (TO)

(Luis de Góngora)

1. Cross rhyme

Purple roses on Galatea (TO)
the Dawn among candid lilies deshoja: (B)
doubt love what else the color of her sea, (TO)
or snowy purple, or snow roja. (B)
From his forehead the pearl is, eritrea, (TO)
vain emula. The blind god is inoja. (B)

(Luis de Góngora)

1. Braided rhyme

In the middle of winter it is templada (TO)
the fresh water of this clear wasentity, (B)
and in the summer more than snow helada. (TO)

Oh clear waves, how I see presentity, (B)
in seeing you, the memory of that day (C)
that the soul trembles and burns I knowentity! (B)

(Garcilaso de la Vega)

1. Internal rhyme

The customary course of Englishenio, (to)
even if the g is missingenio (a) what aEve, (b)
with the leak that llEve (b) run apoco, (c)
and although this is now heoco, (c) not by that (d)
has to give throughthat (d) your sentgone, (e)
in everything having yesgone (e) which you know.

(Garcilaso de la Vega)

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