STUDENT SCRIPT - Englisches Seminar II - Universität zu Köln

1.2 1.2 Poetry: Elementaries of Rhyme
Nieragden: ILCS 13
1. RHYME TYPES
1.1. Pure rhyme [REINER REIM]
Words with perfect identity of sound in stressed syllables. It is also known as perfect rhyme.
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ood ood, ood end rhyme [ENDREIM]
And sorry that I could not travel both,
And be one traveler, long I stood ood ood
And looked down as far as I could ould ould” ould
(Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”)
“I am the daughter aughter of Earth and Water ater ater, ater internal rhyme [BINNENREIM]
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores ores of the ocean and shores ores ores” ores (Percy B. Shelley, “The Cloud”)
“Then all averred, I had killed the bird identical rhyme [IDENTISCHER REIM]
That brought the fog and mist mist. mist
‘Twas right, said they, such birds to stay,
That bring the fog and mist mist” mist
(Samuel Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”)
1.2 Imperfect Rhyme [UNECHTER REIM]
Alliteration [ALLITERATION]
The repetition of a consonant at the beginning of neighbouring words (= initial half rhyme).
“Five miles meandering with a mazy motion” (Samuel Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”)
“Do not go gentle into that good night” (Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”)
Assonance [ASSONANZ]
The repetition of a vowel at the beginning or in stressed syllables of neighbouring words (= half
rhyme).
“A miner on the dole,
with nowhere to go” (Bryn Griffiths, “On the Dole”)
“twice five miles of fertile ground” (Samuel Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”)
Consonance [KONSONANZ]
The repetition of the same conso consonant conso
nant before and/or after differing stressed vowels
“It seemed that out of battle I esc sc scaped sc
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since sc scooped sc
Through granites which titanic wars had gr groined. gr
Yet also there encumbered sleepers gr groaned” gr (Wilfried Owen, “Strange Meeting”)
Assonance, alliteration and consonance are very frequent in idioms (‘as dead as a doornail’; ‘cold as
a stone’), advertising (‘Guinness is good for you’; ‘fish n’ chips’; ‘Beanz nz meanz nz Heinz nz nz’), nz tongue twisters
(‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper’; ‘Round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran’),
and onomatopoetic language (‘kn kn knick kn ck ck-kn ck kn knack kn ck ck’). ck
Eye Rhyme [AUGENREIM]
Words which look like a pure rhyme, but only have identical spellings, not identical sounds (e.g.
great/meat; find/wind).
“Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty ty ty” ty
(William Wordsworth, “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge)
“Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far ar ar, ar
Don John is going to war ar ar” ar
(Gilbert K. Chesterton, “Lepanto”)