An Introduction To Rhyme (ISBN 1-85725-124-5 ) 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 English .
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 Pararhyme :
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. )
Identity rhyme (repetition of word)
Repetition (repetition of line)
Spatial rhyme