And which of these would you have me do?
(And these are just a few, 'tis true!)

    * perfect rhyme, full rhyme, true rhyme: These terms refer to the immediately recognizable norm: true/blue, mountain/fountain.

    * imperfect rhyme, slant rhyme, half rhyme, approximate rhyme, near rhyme, off rhyme, oblique rhyme: These are all general terms referring to rhymes that are close but not exact: lap/shape, glorious/nefarious.

    * eye rhyme: This refers to rhymes based on similarity of spelling rather than sound. Often these are highly conventional, and reflect historical changes in pronunciation: love/move/prove, why/envy.

    * identical rhyme: A word rhymes with itself, as in Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could not Stop for Death":

                  We paused before a house that seemed
                  A Swelling of the Ground--
                  The Roof was scarcely visible--
                  The Cornice--in the Ground.

    * rich rhyme (from French rime riche): A word rhymes with its homonym: blue/blew, guessed/guest.

    * assonant rhyme: Rhyming with similar vowels, different consonants: dip/limp, man/prank.

    * consonant rhyme: Rhyming with similar consonants, different vowels: limp/lump, bit/bet.

    * scarce rhyme: Rhyming on words with limited rhyming alternatives: whisp/lisp, motionless/oceanless.


    * macaronic rhyme: Macaronic verse uses more than one language, as in medieval lyrics with Latin refrains. Macaronic rhyme is also bilingual: glory/pro patria mori, sure/kreatur, queasy/civilisé.