Traditional pure rhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Traditional Pure Rhyme: # Single Pure Rhyme (example: ''cat'' / ''mat'') # Double Pure Rhyme (example: ''silly'' / ''Billy'') # Triple Pure Rhyme (example: ''mystery'' / ''history'') # Eye rhyme (example: ''love'' / ''move'') # Near rhyme (example: ''breath'' / ''deaf'') # Wrenched stress rhyme (example: ''bent'' / ''firmament'') # Wrenched Sense RhymePararhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties ofAssonance rhyme
Dale identifies the following varieties of Assonance Rhyme: # Single Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: ''feast'' / ''feed'') # Double Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: ''fever'' / ''feature'') # Triple Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: ''rosary'' / ''ropery'')Pure assonance rhyme
# Single Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: ''leaves'' / ''feast'') # Double Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: ''babies'' / ''lady'') # Triple Pure Assonance Rhyme (example: ''Cerements'' / ''temperance'')Consonance rhyme
Dale identifies the following types of Consonance rhyme: # Head rhyme (example: ''leaves'' / ''lance'') # Final consonance also known as Half rhyme (example: ''spot'' / ''cut'')Syllable rhyme
Dale identifies the following types of syllable rhyme: # Pure Syllable Rhyme (example: ''belfry'' / ''selfish'') # Syllable Pararhyme (example: ''tractive'' / ''truckle'') # Syllable Assonance (example: ''shadow'' / ''matter'') # Syllable Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: ''shadow'' / ''shackle'');Uneven rhyme
Dale describes three types of Uneven Rhyme: # Simple Uneven Rhyme (example: ''ten'' / ''oven'') # Uneven Rhyme combined with Pararhyme (example: ''pen'' / ''open'') # Uneven Rhyme with Reduced Stress (example: ''house-boat'' / ''top-coat'')Other types of rhyme
Dale also identifies the following types of rhyme: # Light rhyme (rhyme on unstressed syllables; example: ''shallow'' / ''minnow') # Consonant chime (example from Dylan Thomas: ''ferrule'' / ''folly'' / ''angle'' / ''valley'' / ''coral'' / ''mile'') # Alternation (alternation of masculine and feminine endings, a sort of rhythmic rhyme) # Analytic rhyme (complex patterns, example of pararhyme ABBA and assonance ABAB in Auden: ''began'' / ''flush'' / ''flash'' / ''gun'') # Off-centred rhyme (placing rhyme in unexpected places mid-line) # Mirror rhyme (example: ''nude'' / ''dune'') # Generic rhyme (rhyme based on phonetic groups of consonants; example: ''father'' / ''harder'' / ''carver'') #