Rhyme consists in the acoustic coincidence of stressed syllables at the end of verse lines.
Rhymes in words ending with a stressed syllable (i.e. monosyllabic rhymes) are called mate (masculine, or single) rhymes: dreams — streams; obey - away understand — hand.
Rhymes in words (or word combinations) with the last syllable unstressed are female (feminine, or double) rhymes: duty-beauty; berry-merry, Bicket — kick it (Galsworthy)
Rhymes in which the stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed ones are 'dactylic' rhymes (in English, they are preferably called 'triple', or 'treble’ rhymes):
tenderly – slenderly; battery — flattery.
'Eye-rhymes' (or: 'rhymes for the eye'):
Thus, Byron rhymes the words supply and memory:
For us, even banquets fond regret supply In the red cup that crowns our memory.
In the well-known poem My Heart's in the Highlands by Robert Burns we encounter:
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
'Inner', or 'internal' rhyme:
I am the daughter of earth and water... (Shelley)
Rhymeless verse is called 'blank verse':
Should you ask me whence these stories,
Whence these legends and traditions
With the odor of the forest,
With the dew and damp of meadows (The Song of Hiawatha by H.W. Longfellow).
The structure of verse. The stanza
Two or more verse lines make a stanza (also called a 'strophe'). If the syllable is the shortest unit of prosody in general (i.e. prosody of both prose and verse), the foot is the smallest unit of metre in versification. The next unit is the line: it shows metrical pattern. Finally, the largest unit in verse is the stanza.
"Stanza is a verse segment composed of a number of lines having a definite measure and rhyming system which is repeated throughout the poem." (I.R. Galperin)
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