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Thread #59418 Message #1861482
Posted By: Rapparee
17-Oct-06 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Of course one can make a decision
To create a rhyme by its position:
* end rhyme, terminal rhyme: All rhymes occur at line ends--the standard procedure.
* initial rhyme, head rhyme: Alliteration or other rhymes at the beginning of a line.
* internal rhyme: Rhyme that occurs within a line or passage, whether randomly (as below, on "flow" and "grow") or in some kind of pattern:
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
These cherries grow, which none may buy
Till "Cherry Ripe!" themselves do cry.
* leonine rhyme, medial rhyme: Rhyme that occurs at the caesura and line end within a single line--like a rhymed couplet printed as a single line:
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers
* caesural rhyme, interlaced rhyme: Rhymes that occur at the caesura and line end within a pair of lines--like an abab quatrain printed as two lines:
Sweet is the treading of wine, and sweet the feet of the dove;
But a goodlier gift is thine than foam of the grapes or love.
Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harp-string of gold,
A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
Or the following unusual example, an In Memoriam stanza (abba) printed as couplets:
Upon the mat she lies and leers and on the tawny throat of her
Flutters the soft and silky fur or ripples to her pointed ears.
Come forth, my lovely seneschal! so somnolent, so statuesque!
Come forth you exquisite grotesque! half woman and half animal!
Or, to make it ten times worse, then telegraph
The rhyme's position in the poetic paragraph:
* crossed rhyme, alternating rhyme, interlocking rhyme: Rhyming in an abab pattern.
* intermittent rhyme: Rhyming every other line, as in the standard ballad quatrain: xaxa.
* envelope rhyme, inserted rhyme: Rhyming abba (as in the In Memoriam stanza).
* irregular rhyme: Rhyming that follows no fixed pattern (as in the pseudopindaric or irregular ode).
* sporadic rhyme, occasional rhyme: Rhyming that occurs unpredictably in a poem with mostly unrhymed lines.
* thorn line: A line left without rhyme in a generally rhymed passage. (There are ten thorn lines among the 193 lines in Milton's irregularly rhymed Lycidas.)