10 Examples of Cross Rhyme

The cross rhyme it's a kind of rhyme in which the even verses rhyme with each other and the odd verses with each other. This type of rhyme is used in poetry with certain types of stanzas, like the quatrains, the serventesios and the redondillas. For instance:

It was a soft air, of leisurely ggo; (rhymes with verse 3)
the fairy Harmony rhythm his vuthem; (rhymes with verse 4)
and there were vague phrases and tenuous suspgo (rhymes with verse 1)
between the sobs of the violoncthem. (rhymes with verse 2)

(Ruben Dario)

Rhyme is the exact or similar repetition of the final sound of two or more words. For instance: prayeron-cancion. This repetition is established when all or some of the sounds from the last stressed vowel of two or more verses coincide.

Generally, the cross rhyme is consonant, that is, that all the sounds (whether vowels or consonants) coincide from the last stressed vowel. For instance:

Although if there is nothing inside mewas, (TO)
everything — outside of me — transfigured youura (B)
and, at that time that no one espwas,(TO)
you go faster than my desventura.(B)

(Jaime Torres Bodet)

Examples of cross rhyme

1. Fragment of the "Poet and the blind" by Manuel Maples Arce

One afternoon in London I was walking idlyentity (TO)
attached to a corner I found a blind manor; (B)
it looked like a sculpture by looking at him ausentity. (TO)
I put my help in his hands with fervoror. (B)

1. Fragment of "Epistle III" of Tomás de Iriarte

when i got up cabalmentity, (TO)
not with enthusiasm and joyía (B)
that at certain times a poet doesentity, (TO)
but with a bad mood, melancholyía, (B)
severe anger and boredom impertinentity. (TO)

1. Fragment of "The mass of the flowers" by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

A poor mole, the most mandria (TO)
and timid, sweep the cgold. (B)
Today the lime is going to singandria, (TO)
the voice calender of gold! (B)

It will be the zenzontle, haveor; (C)
goldfinch, first violín; (D)
and direct teacheror (C)
the arrogant clarín. (D)

1. Fragment of "Proverbios y cantares" by Antonio Machado

Soul light, divine lightina, (TO)
lighthouse, torch, star, sol… (B)
A man groping camina; (TO)
carries a far on his backol. (B)

1. Fragment of “A mi sombra” by Manuel Machado

Shadow, sad companionwas (to)
Useless, docile and muda, (b)
That you follow me whereverwas (to)
Relevant as the duda. (b)

1. Fragment of "Revelation" by Gerardo Diego

He was in Numantia, while declina (TO)
the afternoon of August August and lento, (B)
Numantia of silence and ruina, (TO)
soul of freedom, throne of viento. (B)

1. Fragment of "Life is a dream" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Eustorgio tertero, (to)
King of Poland, I remainó (b)
Basilio by heredero, (to)
and two daughters, of whom andor (b)

1. Fragment of "Copla I" by Garcilaso de la Vega

Does this have for great culpa? (to)
It was not, in my opinioner, (b)
because it has for desfault (to)
What did the woman do?er. (b)

1. Fragment of "Song of Autumn in Spring" by Rubén Darío

Youth, divine tesgold, (to)
You're leaving so I won't come backer! (b)
When I want to cry, I won'tgold… (to)
and sometimes I cry without wantinger… (B)

1. Fragment of "Romance XII" by Fernando de Herrera

It is the glory of my passionon (to)
the serious pain that yesento, (b)
why is my partridgeon (to)
in the end of the tormento. (b)

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