Lewis Turco's classification of rhymes
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Lewis Turco in his book The New Book of Forms (University Press of New England, 1986) gives the following classification of rhymes:
- End Rhyme full rhyme at line endings
- Falling rhyme (or feminine rhyme) is rhyme for feminine endings with stress pattern / x, example: falling / calling
- Light rhyme example: falling / ring (Dale calls this Uneven Rhyme)
- Internal rhyme rhymes line end with word in the middle of the same line
- Linked rhyme rhyme end of one line with beginning of next
- Interlaced rhyme rhymes middle of one line with middle of next line
- Cross rhyme rhymes ending of one line with middle of adjacent line
- Head rhyme rhymes syllables at the beginning of lines
- Apocopated rhyme breaks a word across a line-break; example: morn- / -ing / born
- Enjambed rhyme uses first sound of next line to make rhyming unit; example: he / descended / seed)
- single rhyme
- double rhyme
- triple rhyme
- compound rhyme treats groups of words as though they were one word; example: people call work / maid-of-all-work.
- mosaic rhyme is compound + normal; example: shy lot / pilot
- trite rhyme is the used of overused rhymes
- omoioteleton
- rich rime, rime riche, false rhyme example: cyst / persist / insist
- consonance, slant-rhyme, off-rhyme, near-rhyme allows similar sounds, example: bridge / hedge / gouge / rage / rouge)
- analyzed rhyme example: moon / divine / chide / brood
- wrenched rhyme ... a pun ... example: rhinestones / noses to their grhinestones
- amphisbaenic rhyme or backward rhyme; examples: later / retail, or stop / pots
- Lyon rime ... word by word pailindrome structure of a stanza
- sight rhyme or eye rhyme: example: eight / sleight
- dialect rhyme is rhyme that s true rhyme in a particular dialect
- historical rhyme is rhyme that was true rhyme in another historical period
- echo
- alliteration
- cynghanedd
