CRWR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Perfect And Imperfect Rhymes, Robert Frost, Assonance
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What do you think of when you think of poetry: condensing your thoughts into a few words, rhyming, music poems often sound lyrical. Why we like rhyme : we naturally like the sound, we like discovering patterns, there"s something musical about it, rhyme helps us remember words/phrases draws attention to certain things. Rhyme can become a liability when : the pattern becomes predictable, when you, the writer, become a slave to the rhyme it feels forced, rhyming for the sake of rhyming, predictable rhyme patterns can create fatigue. End rhyme: rhyming words at the end of consecutive lines, end rhyme as a technique is commonly abused. Alternate strategies for rhyme other than end rhymes . Internal rhyme: rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. Slant rhymes: rhymes where the words are similar in sound but not identical in sound, sometimes called half-rhyme or near-rhyme.
