Peter Dale's classification of rhymes
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Peter Dale classifies forty types of rhymes in his book An Introduction To Rhyme (ISBN 1-85725-124-5).
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[edit] Traditional Pure Rhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Traditional Pure Rhyme:
- Single Pure Rhyme (example: cat / mat)
- Double Pure Rhyme (example: silly / Billy)
- Triple Pure Rhyme (example: mystery / history)
- Eye Rhyme (example: love / move)
- Near Rhyme (example: breadth / deaf)
- Wrenched Stress Rhyme (example: bent / firmament)
- Wrenched Sense Rhyme
[edit] Pararhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Pararhyme:
- Single Pararhyme (example: hill / Hell)
- Double Pararhyme (example: Satan / satin)
- Triple Pararhyme (example: summery / Samurai)
- Double Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: lover / liver)
- Triple Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: mystery / mastery)
- Near Pararhyme (example: live / leaf)
[edit] Assonance Rhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Assonance Rhyme:
- Single Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: feast / feed)
- Double Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: fever / feature)
- Triple Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: rosary / ropery)
[edit] Pure Assonance Rhyme
- Single Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: leaves / feast)
- Double Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: babies / lady)
- Triple Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: Cerements / temperance)
[edit] Consonance Rhyme
Dale identifies the following types of Consonance rhyme:
- Head rhyme (example: leaves / lance)
- Final consonance also known as Half rhyme (example: spot / cut)
[edit] Syllable Rhyme
Dale identifies the following types of Syllable Rhyme:
- Pure Syllable Rhyme (example: belfry / selfish)
- Syllable Pararhyme (example: tractive / truckle)
- Syllable Assonance (example: shadow / matter)
- Syllalble Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: shadow / shackle);
[edit] Uneven Rhyme
Dale describes three types of Uneven Rhyme:
- Simple Uneven Rhyme (example: ten / oven)
- Uneven Rhyme combined with Pararhyme (example: pen / open)
- Uneven Rhyme with Reduced Stress (example: house-boat / top-coat)
[edit] Other types of rhyme
Dale also identifies the following types of rhyme:
- Light rhyme (rhyme on unstressed syllables; example: shallow / minnow')
- Consonant chime (example from Dylan Thomas: ferrule / folly / angle / valley / coral / mile)
- Alternation (alternation of masculine and feminine endings, a sort of rhymthmic rhyme)
- Analytic rhyme (complex patterns, example of pararhyme abba and assonance abab in Auden: began / flush / flash / gun)
- Off-Centred rhyme (placing rhyme in unexpected places mid-line)
- Mirror rhyme (example: nude / dune)
- Generic rhyme (rhyme based on phonetic groups of consonants; example: father / harder / carver)
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- Echo rhyme (example, line ending in disease? Ease.)
- Identity rhyme (repetition of word)
- Repetition (repetition of line)
- Spatial rhyme
