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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_rhymes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>General rhymes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General_rhymes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Identical_rhymes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Identical_rhymes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Identical rhymes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Identical_rhymes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eye_rhyme" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eye_rhyme"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Eye rhyme</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eye_rhyme-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mind_rhyme" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mind_rhyme"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Mind rhyme</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mind_rhyme-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Classification_by_position" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Classification_by_position"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Classification by position</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Classification_by_position-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-History" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>History</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rhyme_in_various_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rhyme_in_various_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Rhyme in various languages</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Rhyme_in_various_languages-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Rhyme in various languages subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Rhyme_in_various_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Arabic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arabic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Arabic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arabic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Celtic_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Celtic_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Celtic languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Celtic_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chinese" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chinese"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Chinese</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chinese-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-English" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#English"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>English</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-English-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-French" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#French"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>French</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-French-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Holorime" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Holorime"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5.1</span> <span>Holorime</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Holorime-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-German" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#German"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>German</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-German-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Greek" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Greek"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.7</span> <span>Greek</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Greek-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hebrew" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hebrew"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.8</span> <span>Hebrew</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hebrew-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Latin" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Latin"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.9</span> <span>Latin</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Latin-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Polish" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Polish"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.10</span> <span>Polish</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Polish-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Portuguese" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Portuguese"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.11</span> <span>Portuguese</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Portuguese-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Russian" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Russian"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.12</span> <span>Russian</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Russian-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sanskrit" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sanskrit"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.13</span> <span>Sanskrit</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sanskrit-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spanish" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spanish"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.14</span> <span>Spanish</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spanish-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tamil" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tamil"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.15</span> <span>Tamil</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tamil-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Urdu" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Urdu"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.16</span> <span>Urdu</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Urdu-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vietnamese" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vietnamese"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.17</span> <span>Vietnamese</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vietnamese-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" 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Available in 80 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-80" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">80 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rym" title="Rym – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Rym" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reim" title="Reim – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Reim" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="قافية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="قافية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A3" title="Յանգ – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Յանգ" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qafiy%C9%99" title="Qafiyə – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Qafiyə" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_(%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF)" title="ছড়া (সাহিত্য) – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ছড়া (সাহিত্য)" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah-%C5%ABn" title="Ah-ūn – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Ah-ūn" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8B%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рыфма – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Рыфма" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8B%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рыфма – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Рыфма" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рима – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Рима" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotenn" title="Klotenn – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Klotenn" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%88" title="Састаш – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Састаш" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BDm" title="Rým – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Rým" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odl" title="Odl – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Odl" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rim" title="Rim – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Rim" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reim" title="Reim – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Reim" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riim" title="Riim – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Riim" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BE%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Ομοιοκαταληξία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ομοιοκαταληξία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimo" title="Rimo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Rimo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errima" title="Errima – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Errima" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%87" title="قافیه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="قافیه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rime" title="Rime – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Rime" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%BB" title="韻 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="韻" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%95%EC%9A%B4" title="압운 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="압운" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme" title="Rhyme – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Rhyme" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A3" title="Հանգ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հանգ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="क़ाफ़िया – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="क़ाफ़िया" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimo" title="Rimo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Rimo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BC%C3%A6" title="Рифмæ – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Рифмæ" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADm" title="Rím – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Rím" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%94" title="חריזה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="חריזה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%97%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90" title="რითმა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="რითმა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рифма – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Рифма" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рифма – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Рифма" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima_(po%C3%ABsis)" title="Rima (poësis) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Rima (poësis)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atska%C5%86a" title="Atskaņa – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Atskaņa" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimas" title="Rimas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Rimas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADm" title="Rím – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Rím" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рима – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Рима" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82" title="പ്രാസം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="പ്രാസം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mnw mw-list-item"><a href="https://mnw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA" title="ကာရန် – Mon" lang="mnw" hreflang="mnw" data-title="ကာရန်" data-language-autonym="ဘာသာမန်" data-language-local-name="Mon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ဘာသာမန်</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA" title="ကာရန် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ကာရန်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijm_(stijlfiguur)" title="Rijm (stijlfiguur) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Rijm (stijlfiguur)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8A%BC%E9%9F%BB" title="押韻 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="押韻" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rim" title="Rim – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Rim" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rim" title="Rim – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Rim" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qofiya" title="Qofiya – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Qofiya" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="قافیا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="قافیا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%87" title="قافیه – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="قافیه" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raim" title="Raim – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Raim" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Patois</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rym" title="Rym – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Rym" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rim%C4%83" title="Rimă – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Rimă" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рифма – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Рифма" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme" title="Rhyme – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Rhyme" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BDm" title="Rým – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Rým" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima" title="Rima – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Rima" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%95%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7" title="سەروا – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="سەروا" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Рима – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Рима" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loppusointu" title="Loppusointu – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Loppusointu" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rim" title="Rim – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Rim" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a 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Most often, this kind of rhyming (<i>perfect rhyming</i>) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of <a href="/wiki/Line_(poetry)" title="Line (poetry)">lines</a> within <a href="/wiki/Poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Poem">poems</a> or <a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">songs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More broadly, a rhyme may also variously refer to other types of similar sounds near the ends of two or more words. Furthermore, the word <i>rhyme</i> has come to be sometimes used as a <a href="/wiki/Pars_pro_toto" title="Pars pro toto">shorthand term</a> for any brief poem, such as a <a href="/wiki/Nursery_rhyme" title="Nursery rhyme">nursery rhyme</a> or <a href="/wiki/Balliol_rhyme" title="Balliol rhyme">Balliol rhyme</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The word derives from <a href="/wiki/Old_French_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old French language">Old French</a>: <i lang="fro">rime</i> or <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro">ryme</i></span>, which might be derived from <a href="/wiki/Old_Frankish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Frankish language">Old Frankish</a>: <i lang="frk">rīm</i>, a Germanic term meaning "series", or "sequence" attested in <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> (Old English: <span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">rīm</i></span> meaning "enumeration", series", or "numeral") and <a href="/wiki/Old_High_German_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old High German language">Old High German</a>: <i lang="goh">rīm</i>, ultimately cognate to <a href="/wiki/Old_Irish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Irish language">Old Irish</a>: <i lang="sga">rím</i>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ἀριθμός</span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">arithmos</i></span> "number"). Alternatively, the Old French words may derive from <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">rhythmus</i>, from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ῥυθμός</span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">rhythmos</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/Rhythm" title="Rhythm">rhythm</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-OED_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OED-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The spelling <i>rhyme</i> (from the original <i>rime</i>) was introduced at the beginning of the Modern English period from a learned (but perhaps etymologically incorrect) association with Latin <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">rhythmus</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-OED_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OED-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The older spelling <i>rime</i> survives in Modern English as a rare alternative spelling; <abbr title="compare">cf.</abbr> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner">The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</a></i>. A distinction between the spellings is also sometimes made in the study of <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguistics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phonology" title="Phonology">phonology</a> for which <i>rime</i> or <i>rhyme</i> is used to refer to the <a href="/wiki/Syllable_nucleus" class="mw-redirect" title="Syllable nucleus">nucleus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syllable_coda" class="mw-redirect" title="Syllable coda">coda</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Syllable" title="Syllable">syllable</a>. Some prefer to spell it <i>rime</i> to distinguish it from the poetic rhyme covered by this article (see <a href="/wiki/Syllable_rime" class="mw-redirect" title="Syllable rime">syllable rime</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Function_of_rhyming_words">Function of rhyming words</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Function of rhyming words"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rhyme partly seems to be enjoyed simply as a repeating pattern that is pleasant to hear. Rhyme is a form of art that one can use to communicate to the reader or audience.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also serves as a powerful <a href="/wiki/Mnemonic" title="Mnemonic">mnemonic</a> device, facilitating short-term memory<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. The regular use of <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Classification_by_position">tail rhyme</a> helps to mark off the ends of lines, thus clarifying the metrical structure for the listener. As with other poetic techniques, poets use it to suit their own purposes; for example, <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> often used a rhyming <a href="/wiki/Couplet" title="Couplet">couplet</a> to mark off the end of a scene in a play. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types_of_rhyme">Types of rhyme</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Types of rhyme"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Rhyme" title="Special:EditPage/Rhyme">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2012</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The word <i>rhyme</i> can be used in a specific and a general sense. In the specific sense, two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical; two lines of <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words. Examples are <i>sight</i> and <i>flight</i>, <i>deign</i> and <i>gain</i>, <i>madness</i> and <i>sadness</i>, <i>love</i> and <i>dove</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Perfect_rhymes">Perfect rhymes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Perfect rhymes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Perfect_rhyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfect rhyme">Perfect rhyme</a></div> <p>Perfect rhymes can be classified by the location of the final stressed syllable. </p> <ul><li><b>single</b>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Masculine_rhyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Masculine rhyme">masculine</a>: a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (<i>rhyme</i>, <i>sublime</i>)</li> <li><b>double</b>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Feminine_rhyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminine rhyme">feminine</a>: a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (<i>picky</i>, <i>tricky</i>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Dactyl_(poetry)" title="Dactyl (poetry)">dactylic</a>:</b> a rhyme in which the stress is on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable (<i>amorous</i>, <i>glamorous</i>)</li></ul> <p>Feminine and dactylic rhymes may also be realized as compound (or mosaic) rhymes (<i>poet</i>, <i>know it</i>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_rhymes">General rhymes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: General rhymes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the general sense, <i>general rhyme</i> can refer to various kinds of phonetic similarity between words, and to the use of such similar-sounding words in organizing verse. Rhymes in this general sense are classified according to the degree and manner of the phonetic similarity: </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Syllable_rhyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Syllable rhyme">syllabic</a>:</b> a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not necessarily contain stressed vowels. (<i>cleaver</i>, <i>silver</i>, or <i>pitter</i>, <i>patter</i>; the final syllable of the words <i>bottle</i> and <i>fiddle</i> is <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/l/</span>, a <a href="/wiki/Liquid_consonant" title="Liquid consonant">liquid consonant</a>.)</li> <li><b>imperfect (or near):</b> a rhyme between a stressed and an unstressed syllable. (<i>wing</i>, <i>caring</i>)</li> <li><b>weak (or unaccented):</b> a rhyme between two sets of one or more unstressed syllables. (<i>hammer</i>, <i>carpenter</i>)</li> <li><b>semirhyme:</b> a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. (<i>bend</i>, <i>ending</i>)</li> <li><b>forced (or oblique):</b> a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (<i>green</i>, <i>fiend</i>; <i>one</i>, <i>thumb</i>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Assonance" title="Assonance">assonance</a>:</b> matching vowels. (<i>sh<b>a</b>ke</i>, <i>h<b>a</b>te</i>) Assonance is sometimes referred to as slant rhymes, along with consonance.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Literary_consonance" title="Literary consonance">consonance</a>:</b> matching consonants. (<i><b>r</b>a<b>b</b>ie<b>s</b>, <b>r</b>o<b>bb</b>er<b>s</b></i>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Half_rhyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Half rhyme">half rhyme</a></b> (or <b>slant rhyme</b>): matching final consonants. (<i>ha<b>nd </b>, le<b>nd</b></i>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pararhyme" title="Pararhyme">pararhyme</a>:</b> all consonants match. (<i>tick</i>, <i>tock</i>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Alliteration" title="Alliteration">alliteration</a></b> (or <b>head rhyme</b>): matching initial consonants. (<i><b>sh</b>ip</i>, <i><b>sh</b>ort</i>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Identical_rhymes">Identical rhymes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Identical rhymes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Identical rhymes are considered less than perfect in English poetry; but are valued more highly in other literatures such as, for example, <i><a href="/wiki/Rime_riche" title="Rime riche">rime riche</a></i> in French poetry. </p><p>Though <a href="/wiki/Homophone" title="Homophone">homophones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homonym" title="Homonym">homonyms</a> satisfy the first condition for rhyming—that is, that the stressed vowel sound is the same—they do not satisfy the second: that the preceding consonant be different. As stated above, in a perfect rhyme the last stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical in both words. </p><p>If the sound preceding the stressed vowel is also identical, the rhyme is sometimes considered to be inferior and not a perfect rhyme after all.<sup id="cite_ref-myclasses_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myclasses-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-michael-thomas_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-michael-thomas-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An example of such a <i>super-rhyme</i> or "more than perfect rhyme" is the <i>identical rhyme</i>, in which not only the vowels but also the onsets of the rhyming syllables are identical, as in <i>gun</i> and <i>begun</i>. Punning rhymes, such as <i>bare</i> and <i>bear</i> are also identical rhymes. The rhyme may extend even farther back than the last stressed vowel. If it extends all the way to the beginning of the line, so that there are two lines that sound very similar or identical, it is called a <i><a href="/wiki/Holorhyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Holorhyme">holorhyme</a></i> ("For I scream/For ice cream"). </p><p>In poetics these would be considered <i>identity</i>, rather than rhyme. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eye_rhyme">Eye rhyme</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Eye rhyme"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Eye_rhyme" title="Eye rhyme">Eye rhyme</a></div> <p>Eye rhymes or sight rhymes or spelling rhymes refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound where the final sounds are spelled identically but pronounced differently.<sup id="cite_ref-Stillman_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stillman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples in English are <i>cough</i>, <i>bough</i>, and <i>love</i>, <i>move</i>. </p><p>Some early written poetry appears to contain these, but in many cases the words used rhymed at the time of writing, and subsequent changes in pronunciation have meant that the rhyme is now lost. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mind_rhyme">Mind rhyme</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Mind rhyme"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mind_rhyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Mind rhyme">Mind rhyme</a></div> <p>Mind rhyme is a kind of substitution rhyme similar to <a href="/wiki/Rhyming_slang" title="Rhyming slang">rhyming slang</a>, but it is less generally codified and is "heard" only when generated by a specific verse context. For instance, "this sugar is neat / and tastes so sour." If a reader or listener thinks of the word "sweet" instead of "sour," a mind rhyme has occurred. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Classification_by_position">Classification by position</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Classification by position"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rhymes may be classified according to their position in the verse: </p> <ul><li><b>Tail rhyme</b> (also called <b>end rhyme</b> or <b>rime couée</b>) is a rhyme in the final syllable(s) of a verse (the most common kind).</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Internal_rhyme" title="Internal rhyme">Internal rhyme</a></b> occurs when a word or phrase in the interior of a line rhymes with a word or phrase at the end of a line, or within a different line.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Off-centered_rhyme" title="Off-centered rhyme">Off-centered rhyme</a></b> is a type of internal rhyme occurring in unexpected places in a given line. This is sometimes called a misplaced-rhyme scheme or a <a href="/wiki/Spoken_word" title="Spoken word">spoken word</a> rhyme style.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Holorime" title="Holorime">Holorime</a></b>, mentioned above, occurs when two entire lines have the same sound.</li> <li><b><a href="/w/index.php?title=Echo_rhyme&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Echo rhyme (page does not exist)">Echo rhyme</a></b> occurs when the same syllable endings are utilized (example: disease/ease).</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Broken_rhyme" title="Broken rhyme">Broken rhyme</a></b> is a type of <a href="/wiki/Enjambement" class="mw-redirect" title="Enjambement">enjambement</a> producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line.</li> <li><b>Cross rhyme</b> matches a sound or sounds at the end of a line with the same sound or sounds in the middle of the following (or preceding) line.<sup id="cite_ref-Stillman_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stillman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Rhyme_scheme" title="Rhyme scheme">rhyme scheme</a> is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Self-contradictory plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Accuracy dispute"><img alt="Exclamation mark with arrows pointing at each other" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Ambox_contradict.svg/38px-Ambox_contradict.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="38" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Ambox_contradict.svg/57px-Ambox_contradict.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Ambox_contradict.svg/76px-Ambox_contradict.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article or section <b>appears to contradict itself</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please see the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Rhyme" title="Talk:Rhyme">talk page</a> for more information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In many languages, including modern European languages and Arabic, poets use rhyme in set patterns as a structural element for specific poetic forms, such as <a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">ballads</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonnet" title="Sonnet">sonnets</a> and <a href="/wiki/Couplet" title="Couplet">rhyming couplets</a>. Some rhyming schemes have become associated with a specific language, culture or period, while other rhyming schemes have achieved use across languages, cultures or time periods. However, the use of structural rhyme is not universal even within the European tradition. Much modern poetry avoids traditional <a href="/wiki/Rhyme_scheme" title="Rhyme scheme">rhyme schemes</a>. </p><p>The earliest surviving evidence of rhyming is the Chinese <a href="/wiki/Shi_Jing" class="mw-redirect" title="Shi Jing">Shi Jing</a> (ca. 10th century BCE). Rhyme is also occasionally used in the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Classical Greek and Latin poetry did not usually rhyme,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but rhyme was used very occasionally. For instance, Catullus includes partial rhymes in the poem <i><a href="/wiki/Catullus_1" title="Catullus 1">Cui dono lepidum novum libellum</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-prosentient_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prosentient-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ancient Greeks knew rhyme, and rhymes in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wasps" title="The Wasps">The Wasps</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a> are noted by a translator.<sup id="cite_ref-google_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rhyme became a permanent - even obligatory - feature of poetry in Hebrew language, around the 4th century CE. It is found in the <a href="/wiki/Piyyut" title="Piyyut">Jewish liturgical poetry</a> written in the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine empire">Byzantine empire</a> era. This was realized by scholars only recently, thanks to the thousands of <a href="/wiki/Piyyut" title="Piyyut">piyyuts</a> that have been discovered in the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Geniza" title="Cairo Geniza">Cairo Geniza</a>. It is assumed that the principle of rhyme was transferred from Hebrew liturgical poetry to the poetry of the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Christianity" title="Syriac Christianity">Syriac Christianity</a> (written in <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a>), and through this mediation introduced into <a href="/wiki/Latin_poetry" title="Latin poetry">Latin poetry</a> and then into all other languages of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rhyme is central to classical <a href="/wiki/Arabic_poetry" title="Arabic poetry">Arabic poetry</a> tracing back to its 6th century pre-Islamic roots. According to some archaic sources, <a href="/wiki/Early_Irish_literature" title="Early Irish literature">Irish literature</a> introduced the rhyme to Early Medieval Europe, but that is a disputed claim.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 7th century, the Irish had brought the art of rhyming verses to a high pitch of perfection. The <a href="/wiki/Leonine_verse" title="Leonine verse">leonine verse</a> is notable for introducing rhyme into High Medieval literature in the 12th century. </p><p>Rhyme entered European poetry in the <a href="/wiki/High_Middle_Ages" title="High Middle Ages">High Middle Ages</a>, in part under the influence of the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic language</a> in <a href="/wiki/Al_Andalus" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Andalus">Al Andalus</a> (modern Spain).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arabic language poets used rhyme extensively from the first development of literary Arabic in the <a href="/wiki/6th_century_in_poetry" title="6th century in poetry">sixth century</a>, as in their long, rhyming <a href="/wiki/Qasida" title="Qasida">qasidas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brill_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brill-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since dialects vary and languages change over time, lines that rhyme in a given register or era may not rhyme in another, and it may not be clear whether one should pronounce the words so that they rhyme. An example is this couplet from <a href="/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel" title="George Frideric Handel">Handel</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Judas_Maccabaeus_(Handel)" title="Judas Maccabaeus (Handel)">Judas Maccabaeus</a>: </p> <dl><dd>Rejoice, O Judah, and in songs divine</dd> <dd>With cherubim and seraphim harmonious join.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rhyme_in_various_languages">Rhyme in various languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Rhyme in various languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Rhyme" title="Special:EditPage/Rhyme">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2016</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arabic">Arabic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Arabic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rhymes were widely spread in the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a> around the 6th century, in letters, poems and songs, as well as long, rhyming <a href="/wiki/Qasida" title="Qasida">qasidas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brill_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brill-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> uses a form of rhymed prose named <a href="/wiki/Saj%27" title="Saj'">saj'</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Celtic_languages">Celtic languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Celtic languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For Welsh, see <a href="/wiki/Cynghanedd" title="Cynghanedd">Cynghanedd</a>.</div> <p>Rhyming in the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages">Celtic languages</a> takes a drastically different course from most other Western rhyming schemes despite strong contact with the Romance and English patterns. Even today, despite extensive interaction with English and French culture, Celtic rhyme continues to demonstrate native characteristics. Brian Ó Cuív sets out the rules of rhyme in Irish poetry of the classical period: the last stressed vowel and any subsequent long vowels must be identical in order for two words to rhyme. Consonants are grouped into six classes for the purpose of rhyme: they need not be identical, but must belong to the same class. Thus 'b' and 'd' can rhyme (both being 'voiced plosives'), as can 'bh' and 'l' (which are both 'voiced continuants') but 'l', a 'voiced continuant', cannot rhyme with 'ph', a 'voiceless continuant'. Furthermore, "for perfect rhyme a palatalized consonant may be balanced only by a palatalized consonant and a velarized consonant by a velarized one."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the post-Classical period, these rules fell into desuetude, and in popular verse simple assonance often suffices, as can be seen in an example of Irish Gaelic rhyme from the traditional song <i>Bríd Óg Ní Mháille</i>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1157697682">.mw-parser-output .verse_translation .translated{padding-left:2em!important}@media only screen and (max-width:43.75em){.mw-parser-output .verse_translation.wrap_when_small td{display:block;padding-left:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .verse_translation.wrap_when_small .translated{padding-left:0.5em!important}}</style> </p> <table role="presentation" class="verse_translation" style="margin-left:1em !important"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p><span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">Is a Bhríd Óg Ní Mháille</i></span><br /> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ga-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish" title="Help:IPA/Irish">[ɪsˠ<span class="wrap"> </span>ə<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈvɾʲiːdʲ<span class="wrap"> </span>oːɡ<span class="wrap"> </span>n̠ʲiː<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈwaːl̠ʲə]</a></span><br /> <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">'S tú d'fhág mo chroí cráite</i></span><br /> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ga-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish" title="Help:IPA/Irish">[sˠ<span class="wrap"> </span>t̪ˠuː<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈd̪ˠaːɡ<span class="wrap"> </span>mə<span class="wrap"> </span>xɾʲiː<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈkɾˠaːtʲə]</a></span> </p> </div> </td> <td class="translated"><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p>Oh young Bridget O'Malley<br /> <br /> You have left my heart breaking </p> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Here the vowels are the same, but the consonants, although both palatalized, do not fall into the same class in the bardic rhyming scheme. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chinese">Chinese</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Chinese"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Rime_dictionary" class="mw-redirect" title="Rime dictionary">Rime dictionary</a></div> <p>Besides the vowel/consonant aspect of rhyming, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a> rhymes often include <a href="/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)" title="Tone (linguistics)">tone</a> quality (that is, <a href="/wiki/Contour_(linguistics)" title="Contour (linguistics)">tonal contour</a>) as an integral linguistic factor in determining rhyme. </p><p>Use of rhyme in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Chinese_poetry" title="Classical Chinese poetry">Classical Chinese poetry</a> typically but not always appears in the form of paired couplets, with end-rhyming in the final syllable of each couplet. </p><p>Another important aspect of rhyme in regard to Chinese language studies is the study or reconstruction of past <a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese" title="Varieties of Chinese">varieties of Chinese</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Middle_Chinese" title="Middle Chinese">Middle Chinese</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English">English</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/English_poetry" title="English poetry">English poetry</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Old_English_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Old English poetry">Old English poetry</a> is mostly <a href="/wiki/Alliterative_verse" title="Alliterative verse">alliterative verse</a>. One of the earliest rhyming poems in English is <a href="/wiki/The_Rhyming_Poem" title="The Rhyming Poem">The Rhyming Poem</a>. </p><p>As <a href="/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)" title="Stress (linguistics)">stress</a> is important in English, lexical stress is one of the factors that affects the similarity of sounds for the perception of rhyme. Perfect rhyme can be defined as the case when two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical.<sup id="cite_ref-Stillman_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stillman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some words in English, such as "<a href="/wiki/Orange_(word)" title="Orange (word)">orange</a>" and "silver", are commonly regarded as having no rhyme. Although a clever writer can get around this (for example, by obliquely rhyming "orange" with combinations of words like "door hinge" or with lesser-known words like "<a href="/wiki/Blorenge" title="Blorenge">Blorenge</a>" – a hill in Wales – or the surname <a href="/wiki/Gorringe_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Gorringe (disambiguation)">Gorringe</a>), it is generally easier to move the word out of rhyming position or replace it with a <a href="/wiki/Synonym" title="Synonym">synonym</a> ("orange" could become "amber", while "silver" could become a combination of "bright and argent"). A skilled orator might be able to tweak the pronunciation of certain words to facilitate a stronger rhyme (for example, pronouncing "orange" as "oringe" to rhyme with "door hinge"). </p><p>One view of rhyme in English is from <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>'s preface to <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Measure is <i>English</i> Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of <i>Homer</i> in <i>Greek</i>, and of <i>Virgil</i> in <i>Latin</i>; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom...</p></blockquote> <p>A more tempered view is taken by <a href="/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden">W. H. Auden</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Dyer%27s_Hand" title="The Dyer's Hand">The Dyer's Hand</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.</p></blockquote> <p>Forced or clumsy rhyme is often a key ingredient of <a href="/wiki/Doggerel" title="Doggerel">doggerel</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French">French</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: French"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/French_poetry" title="French poetry">French poetry</a>, unlike in English, it is common to have <i>identical rhymes</i>, in which not only the vowels of the final syllables of the lines rhyme, but their onset consonants ("consonnes d'appui") as well. To the ear of someone accustomed to English verse, this often sounds like a very weak rhyme. For example, an English perfect rhyme of homophones, <i>flour</i> and <i>flower</i>, would seem weak, whereas a French rhyme of homophones <i>doigt</i> ("finger") and <i>doit</i> ("must") or <i>point</i> ("point") and <i>point</i> ("not") is not only acceptable but quite common. </p><p>Rhymes are sometimes classified into the categories of "rime pauvre" ("poor rhyme"), "rime suffisante" ("sufficient rhyme"), "<a href="/wiki/Rime_riche" title="Rime riche">rime riche</a>" ("rich rhyme") and "rime richissime" ("very rich rhyme"), according to the number of rhyming sounds in the two words or in the parts of the two verses. For example, to rhyme "tu" with "vu" would be a poor rhyme (the words have only the vowel in common), to rhyme "pas" with "bras" a sufficient rhyme (with the vowel and the silent consonant in common), and "tante" with "attente" a rich rhyme (with the vowel, the onset consonant, and the coda consonant with its mute "e" in common). Authorities disagree, however, on exactly where to place the boundaries between the categories. </p><p>Classical French rhyme not only differs from English rhyme in its different treatment of onset consonants. It also treats coda consonants in a distinctive way. </p><p>French spelling includes several final letters that are no longer pronounced and that in many cases have never been pronounced. Such final unpronounced letters continue to affect rhyme according to the rules of Classical French versification. </p><p>The most important "silent" letter is the "<a href="/wiki/Silent_letter#Vowels" title="Silent letter">mute e</a>". In spoken French today, final "e" is, in some regional accents (in Paris for example), omitted after consonants; but in Classical French prosody, it was considered an integral part of the rhyme even when following the vowel. "Joue" could rhyme with "boue", but not with "trou". Rhyming words ending with this silent "e" were said to make up a "double rhyme", while words not ending with this silent "e" made up a "single rhyme". It was a principle of stanza-formation that single and double rhymes had to alternate in the stanza. Virtually all 17th-century French plays in verse alternate masculine and feminine <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Alexandrin" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexandrin">Alexandrin</a></i></span> couplets. </p><p>The now-silent final consonants present a more complex case. They, too, were traditionally an integral part of the rhyme, such that "pont" rhymed with "vont" but not with "long". (The voicing of consonants was lost in liaison and thus ignored, so "pont" also rhymed with "rond".) There are a few rules that govern most word-final consonants in archaic French pronunciation: </p> <ul><li>The distinction between voiced and unvoiced consonants is lost in the final position. Therefore, "d" and "t" (both pronounced /t/) rhyme. So too with "c", "g" and "q" (all /k/), and "s", "x" and "z" (all /z/). Rhymes ending in /z/ are called "plural rhymes" because most plural nouns and adjectives end in "s" or "x".</li> <li>Nasal vowels rhyme whether spelled with "m" or "n" (e.g., "essaim" rhymes with "sain").</li> <li>If a word ends in a stop consonant followed by "s", the stop is silent and ignored for purposes of rhyming (e.g., "temps" rhymes with "dents"). In the archaic orthography some of these silent stops are omitted from the spelling as well (e.g., "dens" for "dents").</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Holorime">Holorime</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Holorime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Holorime" title="Holorime">Holorime</a></i> is an extreme example of <i>rime richissime</i> spanning an entire verse. <a href="/wiki/Alphonse_Allais" title="Alphonse Allais">Alphonse Allais</a> was a notable exponent of holorime. Here is an example of a holorime couplet from <a href="/wiki/Marc_Monnier" title="Marc Monnier">Marc Monnier</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1157697682"> </p> <table role="presentation" class="verse_translation" style="margin-left:1em !important"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Gall, amant de la Reine, alla (tour magnanime)<br /> Galamment de l'Arène à la Tour Magne, à Nîmes.</i></span> </p> </div> </td> <td class="translated"><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p>Gallus, the Queen's lover, went (a magnanimous gesture)<br /> Gallantly from the Arena to the Great Tower, at Nîmes. </p> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German">German</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: German"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because <a href="/wiki/German_phonology" class="mw-redirect" title="German phonology">German phonology</a> features a wide array of vowel sounds, certain imperfect rhymes are widely admitted in German poetry. These include rhyming "e" with "ä" and "ö", rhyming "i" with "ü", rhyming "ei" with "eu" (spelled "äu" in some words) and rhyming a long vowel with its short counterpart. </p><p>Some examples of imperfect rhymes (all from <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/An_die_Freude" class="mw-redirect" title="An die Freude">An die Freude</a>"): </p> <ul><li>Deine Zauber binden w<b>ieder</b> / Alle Menschen werden Br<b>üder</b></li> <li>Freude trinken alle W<b>esen</b> / Alle Guten, alle B<b>ösen</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Greek">Greek</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><i>See <a href="/wiki/Homoioteleuton" class="mw-redirect" title="Homoioteleuton">Homoioteleuton</a></i></dd></dl> <p>Ancient Greek poetry is strictly metrical. Rhyme is used, if at all, only as an occasional rhetorical flourish. </p><p>The first Greek to write rhyming poetry was the fourteenth-century Cretan <a href="/wiki/Stephanos_Sachlikis" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephanos Sachlikis">Stephanos Sachlikis</a>. Rhyme is now a common fixture of Greek poetry. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hebrew">Hebrew</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Hebrew"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ancient <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> rarely employed rhyme, e.g., in <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Exodus" title="Book of Exodus">Exodus</a> 29 35: ועשית לאהרן ולבניו כָּכה, ככל אשר צויתי אֹתָכה (the identical part in both rhyming words being / 'axa/ ). Rhyme became a permanent - even obligatory - feature of poetry in Hebrew language, around the 4th century CE. It is found in the <a href="/wiki/Piyyut" title="Piyyut">Jewish liturgical poetry</a> written in the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine empire">Byzantine empire</a> era. This was realized by scholars only recently, thanks to the thousands of <a href="/wiki/Piyyut" title="Piyyut">piyyuts</a> that have been discovered in the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Geniza" title="Cairo Geniza">Cairo Geniza</a>. It is assumed that the principle of rhyme was transferred from Hebrew liturgical poetry to the poetry of the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Christianity" title="Syriac Christianity">Syriac Christianity</a> (written in <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a>), and through this mediation introduced into <a href="/wiki/Latin_poetry" title="Latin poetry">Latin poetry</a> and then into all other languages of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latin">Latin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Latin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> rhetoric and poetry <a href="/wiki/Homeoteleuton" title="Homeoteleuton">homeoteleuton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alliteration_(Latin)" title="Alliteration (Latin)">alliteration</a> were frequently used devices. </p><p><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Classification_by_position">Tail rhyme</a> was occasionally used, as in this piece of poetry by <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1157697682"> </p> <table role="presentation" class="verse_translation" style="margin-left:1em !important"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">O Fortu<b>natam</b> <b>natam</b> me consule <b>Romam</b>.</i></span> </p> </div> </td> <td class="translated"><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p>O fortunate Rome, to be born with me consul </p> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>But <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Classification_by_position">tail rhyme</a> was not used as a prominent structural feature of <a href="/wiki/Latin_poetry" title="Latin poetry">Latin poetry</a> until it was introduced under the influence of local vernacular traditions in the early <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>. This is the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Dies_Irae" class="mw-redirect" title="Dies Irae">Dies Irae</a></i>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1157697682"> </p> <table role="presentation" class="verse_translation" style="margin-left:1em !important"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Dies irae, dies illa<br /> Solvet saeclum in favilla<br /> Teste David cum Sybilla</i></span> </p> </div> </td> <td class="translated"><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p>The day of wrath, that day<br /> which will reduce the world to ashes,<br /> as foretold by David and the Sybil. </p> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Medieval_poetry" title="Medieval poetry">Medieval poetry</a> may mix Latin and <a href="/wiki/Vernacular" title="Vernacular">vernacular</a> languages. Mixing languages in verse or rhyming words in different languages is termed <a href="/wiki/Macaronic" class="mw-redirect" title="Macaronic">macaronic</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Polish">Polish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Polish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Polish literature rhyme was used from the beginning. Unrhymed verse was never popular, although it was sometimes imitated from Latin. <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s, <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s and even <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">Milton</a>'s epic poems were furnished with rhymes by Polish translators.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of paroxytonic accentuation in Polish, feminine rhymes always prevailed. Rules of Polish rhyme were established in 16th century. Then only feminine rhymes were allowed in syllabic verse system. Together with introducing syllabo-accentual metres, masculine rhymes began to occur in Polish poetry. They were most popular at the end of 19th century. The most frequent rhyme scheme in Old Polish (16th - 18th centuries) was couplet AABBCCDD..., but Polish poets, having perfect knowledge of Italian language and literature, experimented with other schemes, among others <a href="/wiki/Ottava_rima" title="Ottava rima">ottava rima</a> (ABABABCC) and <a href="/wiki/Sonnet" title="Sonnet">sonnet</a> (ABBA ABBA CDC DCD or ABBA ABBA CDCD EE). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1157697682"> </p> <table role="presentation" class="verse_translation" style="margin-left:1em !important"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p><span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">Wpłynąłem na suchego przestwór oceanu,<br /> Wóz nurza się w zieloność i jak łódka brodzi,<br /> Śród fali łąk szumiących, śród kwiatów powodzi,<br /> Omijam koralowe ostrowy burzanu.</i></span> </p> </div> </td> <td class="translated"><div style="font-style:roman;text-align:left" lang="" class="poem"> <p>Across sea-meadows measureless I go,<br /> My wagon sinking under grass so tall<br /> The flowery petals in foam on me fall,<br /> And blossom-isles float by I do not know.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;font-size:90%"> <td style="padding-left:1.6em;text-align:left">—Adam Mickiewicz,<br />"<span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">Stepy akermańskie</i></span>", <i><span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">Sonety krymskie</i></span></i>, lines 1–4 </td> <td style="padding-left:3.6em;text-align:left">—"The Ackerman Steppe", <i>Sonnets from the Crimea</i>,<br />translated by <a href="/wiki/Edna_Worthley_Underwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Edna Worthley Underwood">Edna Worthley Underwood</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The metre of Mickiewicz's sonnet is the <a href="/wiki/Polish_alexandrine" title="Polish alexandrine">Polish alexandrine</a> (tridecasyllable, in Polish "trzynastozgłoskowiec"): 13(7+6) and its rhymes are feminine: [anu] and [odzi]. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Portuguese">Portuguese</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Portuguese"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> classifies rhymes in the following manner: </p> <ul><li><b>rima pobre</b> (poor rhyme): rhyme between words of the same <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_category" title="Grammatical category">grammatical category</a> (e.g., noun with noun) or between very common endings (<i>-ão</i>, <i>-ar</i>);</li> <li><b>rima rica</b> (rich rhyme): rhyme between words of different grammatical classes or with uncommon endings;</li> <li><b>rima preciosa</b> (precious rhyme): rhyme between words with a different <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)" title="Morphology (linguistics)">morphology</a>, for example <i>estrela</i> (star) with <i>vê-la</i> (to see her);</li> <li><b>rima esdrúxula</b> (odd rhyme): rhyme between <a href="/wiki/Proparoxytone" title="Proparoxytone">proparoxytonic</a> words (example: <i>ânimo</i>, "animus", and <i>unânimo</i>, "unanimous").</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russian">Russian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Russian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rhyme was introduced into <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> poetry in the 18th century. Folk poetry had generally been unrhymed, relying more on dactylic line endings for effect. Two words ending in an accented vowel are only considered to rhyme if they share a preceding consonant. Vowel pairs rhyme—even though non-Russian speakers may not perceive them as the same sound. Consonant pairs rhyme if both are devoiced. As in French, formal poetry traditionally alternates between masculine and feminine rhymes. </p><p>Early 18th-century poetry demanded perfect rhymes that were also grammatical rhymes—namely that noun endings rhymed with noun endings, verb endings with verb endings, and so on. Such rhymes relying on morphological endings become much rarer in modern Russian poetry, and greater use is made of approximate rhymes.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The rules for rhyming used by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin" title="Alexander Pushkin">Alexander Pushkin</a> and subsequent <a href="/wiki/Russian_poets" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian poets">Russian poets</a> owe much to French verse. The basic rules, as laid out by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov" title="Vladimir Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/Notes_on_Prosody" title="Notes on Prosody">Notes on Prosody</a></i>, are as follows: </p> <ul><li>As in French, rhymes are divided into <a href="/wiki/Masculine_and_feminine_endings" title="Masculine and feminine endings">masculine and feminine</a> according to whether the word is stressed on the last or second-to-last syllable. Two different masculine rhymes or two feminine rhymes cannot normally occur in succeeding lines. Rhyme schemes involving words stressed on the third-to-last syllable or earlier in the word are found in some poems but are relatively rare, especially in longer poetry.</li> <li>As in French, two words with the same pronunciation but different meanings can be rhymed, e.g., <i>супру́га</i> ("wife") and <i>супру́га </i> ("husband's").</li> <li>Words ending in a stressed vowel (e.g., <i>вода́</i>) can only rhyme with other words which share the consonant preceding the vowel (e.g., <i>когда́</i>). <ul><li>Words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by another vowel, as well as words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by /j/, can all be rhymed with each other: <i>моя́</i>, <i>тая́</i> and <i>чья</i> all rhyme.</li> <li>According to Nabokov, a special dispensation is made for <i>любви́</i>, an inflected form of <i>любо́вь</i> ("love"), allowing it to be rhymed with all words ending in a vowel followed by /ˈi/ (e.g., <i>твои́</i>). Some poets, including Pushkin, go further and rhyme <i>любви́</i> with any word ending in /ˈi/.</li></ul></li> <li>Unstressed <i>а</i> and <i>о</i> (e.g., <i>жа́ло</i> and <i>Ура́ла</i>) can be rhymed with each other. For most contemporary Russian speakers these letters when unstressed are pronounced identically as /ə/. See also <i><a href="/wiki/Vowel_reduction_in_Russian" title="Vowel reduction in Russian">vowel reduction in Russian</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Akanye" title="Akanye">akanye</a></i>.</li> <li>In unstressed syllables, /ɨ/, /ɨj/ and /əj/ are considered more or less equivalent: thus <i>за́лы</i>, <i>ма́лый</i> and <i>а́лой</i> can all be rhymed. Nabokov describes rhyming /ɨ/ with /ɨj/ as "not inelegant" and rhyming /ɨj/ with /əj/ as "absolutely correct".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Sanskrit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Patterns of rich rhyme (<i>prāsa</i>) play a role in modern Sanskrit poetry, but only to a minor extent in historical Sanskrit texts. They are classified according to their position within the <i>pada</i> (metrical foot): <i>ādiprāsa</i> (first syllable), <i>dvitīyākṣara prāsa</i> (second syllable), <i>antyaprāsa</i> (final syllable) etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spanish">Spanish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Spanish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spanish mainly differentiates two types of rhymes: </p> <ul><li><b>rima consonante</b> (consonant rhyme): Those words of the same stress with identical endings, matching consonants and vowels, for example robo (robbery) and lobo (wolf), legua (league) and yegua (mare) or canción (song) and montón (pile).</li> <li><b>rima asonante</b> (assonant rhyme): those words of the same stress that only the vowels identical at the end, for example zapato (shoe) and brazo (arm), ave (bird) and ame (would love), reloj (watch) and feroz (fierce), puerta (door) and ruleta (roulette).</li></ul> <p>Spanish rhyme is also classified by stress type since different types cannot rhyme with each other: </p> <ul><li><b>rima llana</b> (plane rhyme): the rhyming words are unaccented, for example cama (bed) and rama (branch), pereza (laziness) and moneda (coin) or espejo (mirror) and pienso (I think).</li> <li><b>rima grave</b> (oxytonic rhyme): The rhyming words are accented on the last syllable, for example: cartón (cardboard) and limón (lemon), jerez (sherry) and revés (backwards). Grave words that end in a single same vowel can be asonante rhymes for example compró (he/she bought) and llevó (he/she carried), tendré (I will have) and pediré (I will ask), perdí (I lost) and medí (I measured).</li> <li><b>rima esdrújula</b> (odd rhyme): The rhyming words are accented on the <a href="/wiki/Antepenult" class="mw-redirect" title="Antepenult">antepenult</a>. For example, mácula (stain) and báscula (scale), estrépito (noise) and intrépido (fearless), rápido (fast) and pálido (pallid).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tamil">Tamil</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Tamil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are some unique rhyming schemes in Dravidian languages like Tamil. Specifically, the rhyme called <i>etukai</i> (anaphora) occurs on the second consonant of each line. </p><p>The other rhyme and related patterns are called <i>mō<u>n</u>ai</i> (<a href="/wiki/Alliteration" title="Alliteration">alliteration</a>), <i>toṭai</i> (<a href="/wiki/Epistrophe" title="Epistrophe">epiphora</a>) and <i>iraṭṭai kiḷavi</i> (<a href="/wiki/Parallelism_(rhetoric)" title="Parallelism (rhetoric)">parallelism</a>). </p><p>Some classical Tamil poetry forms, such as <i>veṇpā</i>, have rigid grammars for rhyme to the point that they could be expressed as a <a href="/wiki/Context-free_grammar" title="Context-free grammar">context-free grammar</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Urdu">Urdu</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Urdu"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rhymes are called Qafiya in Urdu. Qafiya has a very important place in Urdu Poetry. Couplet of an Urdu <a href="/wiki/Ghazal" title="Ghazal">Ghazal</a> is incomplete without a Qafiya.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following is an example of an Urdu couplet from <a href="/wiki/Faiz_Ahmad_Faiz" title="Faiz Ahmad Faiz">Faiz Ahmed Faiz</a>'s ghazal </p><p>dono jahaan teri mohabbat mein <i>haar</i> ke,<br /> wo jaa rahaa hai koi shab e ghum <i>guzaar</i> ke<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>haar</i> and <i>guzaar</i> are qafiyas in this couplet because of rhyming. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vietnamese">Vietnamese</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Vietnamese"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rhymes are used in <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a> to produce <a href="/wiki/Simile" title="Simile">similes</a>. The following is an example of a Rhyming Simile: </p><p><b>Nghèo</b> như con <b>mèo</b> <br />/<b>ŋɛu</b> ɲɯ kɔn <b>mɛu</b>/ <br />"Poor as a cat" </p><p>Compare the above Vietnamese example, which is a <i>rhyming</i> simile, to the English phrase "(as) poor as a church mouse", which is only a <i>semantic</i> simile.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alliteration" title="Alliteration">Alliteration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assonance" title="Assonance">Assonance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_poetry_terms" title="Glossary of poetry terms">Glossary of poetry terms</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/An_Introduction_to_Rhyme" title="An Introduction to Rhyme">An Introduction to Rhyme</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes" title="List of English words without rhymes">List of English words without rhymes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_consonance" title="Literary consonance">Consonance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multisyllabic_rhymes" title="Multisyllabic rhymes">Multisyllabic rhymes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapping#Rhyme" title="Rapping">Rhyme in rap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhyming_recipe" title="Rhyming recipe">Rhyming recipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhyming_slang" title="Rhyming slang">Rhyming slang</a> (e.g. Cockney rhyming slang)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhyming_spiritual" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhyming spiritual">Rhyming spiritual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rime_table" title="Rime table">Rime table</a> - syllable chart of the Chinese language</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_rhyme" title="Traditional rhyme">Traditional rhyme</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120707012935/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/rhyme">"Rhyme"</a>. <i>Oxford Dictionaries</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-04-15</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Online+Etymology+Dictionary&rft.date=2000%2F2012&rft.aulast=Harper&rft.aufirst=Douglas&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Findex.php%3Fallowed_in_frame%3D0%26search%3Drhyme%26searchmode%3Dnone&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZhirmunskyHoffmann2013" class="citation journal cs1">Zhirmunsky, Viktor; Hoffmann, John (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24770540">"Introduction to Rhyme: Its "History and Theory"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>Chicago Review</i>. <b>57</b> (3/4): 121–128. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0009-3696">0009-3696</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chicago+Review&rft.atitle=Introduction+to+Rhyme%3A+Its+%22History+and+Theory%22&rft.volume=57&rft.issue=3%2F4&rft.pages=121-128&rft.date=2013&rft.issn=0009-3696&rft.aulast=Zhirmunsky&rft.aufirst=Viktor&rft.au=Hoffmann%2C+John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F24770540&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTsur1996" class="citation journal cs1">Tsur, Reuven (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1773252?origin=crossref">"Rhyme and Cognitive Poetics"</a>. <i>Poetics Today</i>. <b>17</b> (1): 55–87. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1773252">10.2307/1773252</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0333-5372">0333-5372</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Poetics+Today&rft.atitle=Rhyme+and+Cognitive+Poetics&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=55-87&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F1773252&rft.issn=0333-5372&rft.aulast=Tsur&rft.aufirst=Reuven&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F1773252%3Forigin%3Dcrossref&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-myclasses-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-myclasses_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://myclasses.net/smiser/cwp/rhyme.html">"Rhyme, which cites <i>Whitfield's University Rhyming Dictionary</i>, 1951"</a>. myclasses.net<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-08-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Rhyme%2C+which+cites+Whitfield%27s+University+Rhyming+Dictionary%2C+1951&rft.pub=myclasses.net&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmyclasses.net%2Fsmiser%2Fcwp%2Frhyme.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-michael-thomas-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-michael-thomas_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.michael-thomas.com/music/songwriting/rhyming.htm">"Rhyming and Songwriting"</a>. michael-thomas.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-08-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Rhyming+and+Songwriting&rft.pub=michael-thomas.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michael-thomas.com%2Fmusic%2Fsongwriting%2Frhyming.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stillman-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Stillman_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stillman_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stillman_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStillman1966" class="citation book cs1">Stillman, Frances (1966). <i>The Poet's Manual and Rhyming Dictionary</i>. Thames and Hudson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0500270309" title="Special:BookSources/0500270309"><bdi>0500270309</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Poet%27s+Manual+and+Rhyming+Dictionary&rft.pub=Thames+and+Hudson&rft.date=1966&rft.isbn=0500270309&rft.aulast=Stillman&rft.aufirst=Frances&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6wSWpZmmlAoC&q=rhyme&pg=PA236">Old Testament survey: the message, form, and background of the Old Testament pg. 236</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWesling1980" class="citation book cs1">Wesling, Donald (1980). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/chancesofrhymede0000wesl"><i>The chances of rhyme</i></a></span>. University of California Press. pp. x–xi, 38–42. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-03861-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-03861-5"><bdi>978-0-520-03861-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+chances+of+rhyme&rft.pages=x-xi%2C+38-42&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=978-0-520-03861-5&rft.aulast=Wesling&rft.aufirst=Donald&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fchancesofrhymede0000wesl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-prosentient-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-prosentient_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031628/http://www.prosentient.com.au/balnaves/johnbalnaves/dissch6c.asp">"Bernard of Morlaix - METRE AND RHYME"</a>. prosentient.com.au. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prosentient.com.au/balnaves/johnbalnaves/dissch6c.asp">the original</a> on 2016-03-04<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-08-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Bernard+of+Morlaix+-+METRE+AND+RHYME&rft.pub=prosentient.com.au&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prosentient.com.au%2Fbalnaves%2Fjohnbalnaves%2Fdissch6c.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-google-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-google_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAristophanesSlavitt,_D.R.Bovie,_S.P.1999" class="citation book cs1">Aristophanes; Slavitt, D.R.; Bovie, S.P. (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WHmfT2s4mLgC&pg=PA4"><i>Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, The Sexual Congress</i></a>. University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated. p. 4. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780812216844" title="Special:BookSources/9780812216844"><bdi>9780812216844</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-08-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Aristophanes%2C+2%3A+Wasps%2C+Lysistrata%2C+Frogs%2C+The+Sexual+Congress&rft.pages=4&rft.pub=University+of+Pennsylvania+Press%2C+Incorporated&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=9780812216844&rft.au=Aristophanes&rft.au=Slavitt%2C+D.R.&rft.au=Bovie%2C+S.P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWHmfT2s4mLgC%26pg%3DPA4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">See: Benjamin Harshav (Hrushovski)'s article on Hebrew Prosody in the <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_Judaica" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopedia Judaica">Encyclopedia Judaica</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08116a.htm">Article about early Irish literature by Prof. Douglas Hyde in The Catholic Encyclopedia</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMenocal,_Maria_Rosa2003" class="citation book cs1">Menocal, Maria Rosa (2003). <i>The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History</i>. University of Pennsylvania. p. 88. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8122-1324-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8122-1324-6"><bdi>0-8122-1324-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Arabic+Role+in+Medieval+Literary+History&rft.pages=88&rft.pub=University+of+Pennsylvania&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-8122-1324-6&rft.au=Menocal%2C+Maria+Rosa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Brill-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Brill_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Brill_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSperl,_Stefan1996" class="citation book cs1">Sperl, Stefan, ed. (1996). <i>Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa</i>. Brill. p. 49. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-10387-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-10387-0"><bdi>978-90-04-10387-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Qasida+poetry+in+Islamic+Asia+and+Africa&rft.pages=49&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-90-04-10387-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kelly, Thomas Forest (2011). <i>Early Music: A Very Short Introduction</i>, p.83. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-973076-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-973076-6">978-0-19-973076-6</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ó Cuív, Brian (1967). 'The Phonetic Basis of Classical Modern Irish Rhyme'. <i>Ériu 20, pp. 96–97</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wiktor Jarosław Darasz, Mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim, Kraków 2003, p. 19 (in Polish).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sonnets.org/mickiewicz.htm#001">"Adam Mickiewicz's Sonnets from the Crimea at Sonnet Central"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Adam+Mickiewicz%27s+Sonnets+from+the+Crimea+at+Sonnet+Central&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sonnets.org%2Fmickiewicz.htm%23001&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWachtel2006" class="citation book cs1">Wachtel, Michael (2006). <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780511206986" title="Special:BookSources/9780511206986"><bdi>9780511206986</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Introduction+to+Russian+Poetry&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=9780511206986&rft.aulast=Wachtel&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sahityaduniya.com/qafiya-list-urdu-shayari/">"उर्दू शायरी में क़ाफ़िया"</a>. 11 February 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%82+%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80+%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82+%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE&rft.date=2023-02-11&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsahityaduniya.com%2Fqafiya-list-urdu-shayari%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://shayarighar.com/2017/02/dono-jahaan-teri-mohabbat-mein-haar-ke/">"Dono jahaan teri mohabbat mein haar ke"</a>. 11 February 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Dono+jahaan+teri+mohabbat+mein+haar+ke&rft.date=2017-02-11&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fshayarighar.com%2F2017%2F02%2Fdono-jahaan-teri-mohabbat-mein-haar-ke%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhyme" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See p. 98 in Thuy Nga Nguyen and <a href="/wiki/Ghil%27ad_Zuckermann" title="Ghil'ad Zuckermann">Ghil'ad Zuckermann</a> (2012), "Stupid as a Coin: Meaning and Rhyming Similes in Vietnamese", <i>International Journal of Language Studies</i> 6 (4), pp. 97–118.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhyme&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: External 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