Consonance is the repetition of consonants in a rhyme scheme and typically occurs at the end of words ex. Generally, Consonance occurs at the end of words, Alliteration at the beginning, and Assonance takes the middle ground.
Sight Rhyme is an imperfect pattern in a rhyme scheme and often uses words which have a similarity in spelling rather than sound ex. This is also sometimes called eye rhyme. Slant Rhyme occurs when the rhyme scheme is inexact, distant, or virtual. The rhyme scheme blends and the sound matches, but imperfectly ex. This is also sometimes called pararhyme. Off-centered Rhyme occurs when the rhyme scheme is placed in an unusual position within the poem, perhaps in the middle of a line for example.
Mirror Rhyme occurs when words are used that don't exactly rhyme, but are reflections of one another ex. Sporadic Rhyme is occasional rhyme that occurs unpredictably in a poem with most of the lines being unrhymed. Thorn Rhyme is a line that stands out because it intentionally doesn't rhyme in a poem in which most of the lines do rhyme. No Rhyme Rhyme occurs when there are no words in the English language that match a particular word to rhyme it. Some examples would be the words "orange, silver, purple, and month".
Here the poet would need to be creative in the rhyming scheme and perhaps try to rhyme orange with something like door hinge; silver with pilfer as a sight rhyme, or purple with burple, as the color of a hiccup I admit that one is certainly a stretch, but you know what I mean. The second "uh" vowel does, depending on differing regional pronunciations of these non-English-origin words.
So this is a half-rhyme, and doubly halved by the rhyming syllable being the shorter, unstressed syllable of "Hondas" and few readers being able to pronounce "Khmers" accurately on first viewing Or if it does attend, we may not tell how mind or heart should turn its meaning but where it will. And some there are who have denied us all fellowship and identity reserved their rank in the national roll.
But should you read these lines, and if they move, I would you share their longing with a friend, our people, and all who love. The rhymes appear, but not in every line, only the 2nd and 5th of each stanza. Separated by three lines, the ear struggles to hear them with the same regularity, especially with the absence of a strict meter to regulate the repetition.
And as further diversion, each of the stanzas is a single sentence, eliding the ripple of each rhyme into the wave of the long run-on. The rhyme becomes even less obvious when it loses the open vowels, and retains only the percussion of the consonants—closer to the rhythmic "chck" of a closed high-hat.
Who would notice the eye-rhymes of "body" and "melody", or "breakfast" and "past"? The last is even less noticeable as it enjambs into the next sentence—reading this poem out loud, one barely hesitates on the line break at "The past" to ruminate on that subject, before the poetic line sweeps on into a disavowal of what the present is.
Even where Tay adopts perfect rhyme with "raw" and "law", with two end-stopped sentences, he prevents them from being predictable by breaking the line in the middle with a caesura after "Shells crack on rim" and "was never like that". Instead of head-wagging, five-beat lines of iambic pentameter, the end-stopped full rhymes come after fragmentary sentences in a series of enjambed interjections.
I liken this to rhythmic syncopation the sharp emphasis of the down-beat happening not where you predict it, carrying past each bar into the next with a sense of off-balance surprise. In the first six lines of this sonnet there isn't a single end-stopped line—every line runs on! Not content with breaking the sentence across the poetic line, he breaks a word - "ex-cellence" across the first two lines so he can rhyme "ex-" with "lax. Rather than the subtlety of enjambment, this technique calls attention to itself, and deliberately so!
Does "salarymen" rhyme with "monuments"? Both have "men" in them, so should we call this consonance or assonance or half-feminine rhyme? Why should we care, when we can just appreciate how "salarymen" lines up perfectly with "monuments", with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed? And what about that splatter of "ronin", "serotonin" and "oxytocin"?
Earlier we discussed how the rhythm pattern of a poem helps to create mood and atmosphere. Skip to main content. Search form. Sign up Log in. The emphasis that it places on certain words, giving them a prominence. It draws lines and stanzas together linking ideas and images.
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