''An Introduction To Rhyme'' () is a book by Peter Dale which was published by Agenda/Bellew in 1998. The first chapter gives a detailed and comprehensive categorization of forty types of rhyme available in

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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 Rhyme

Pararhyme

Dale identifies the following varieties of

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: # Single Pararhyme (example: ''hill'' / ''Hell'') # Double Pararhyme (example: ''Satan'' / ''satin'') # Triple Pararhyme (example: ''summery'' / ''Samurai'') # Double Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: ''lover'' / ''liver'') # Triple Pararhyme Mixed Form (example: ''mystery'' / ''mastery'') # Near Pararhyme (example: ''live'' / ''leaf'')

Assonance rhyme

Dale identifies the following varieties of Assonance Rhyme: # Single Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: ''feast'' / ''feed'') # Double Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: ''fever'' / ''feature'') # Triple Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: ''rosary'' / ''ropery'')

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'') #

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# Echo rhyme (example, line ending in ''disease? Ease.'') #

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(repetition of line) # Spatial rhyme {{DEFAULTSORT:Introduction to Rhyme 1998 non-fiction books Books about poetry Rhyme