Rhyming terms, organized (in progress)
Perfect rhyme, True rhyme, Full rhyme, Pure rhyme all phonemes are the same, except in the rhyming syllable
Identical rhyme, more-than-perfect rhyme phonemes are exactly the same Rich rhyme phonemes are exactly the same, but words (spellings) are different
Imperfect rhyme, Oblique rhyme, Near rhyme, Half rhyme, Off rhyme, Slant rhyme some departure from the above “perfect” rhyme
Multisyllabic rhyme, compound rhyme, polysyllable rhyme
Single rhyme, masculine rhyme the last syllable of both words rhyme Double rhyme, feminine rhyme the last two syllables of both words rhyme Triple rhyme the last three syllables of both words rhyme
Pararhyme, Consonant rhyme all consonant phonemes in both words are identical, in the same position. Vowel phonemes may differ. Assonant rhyme all vowel phonemes in both words are identical, in the same position. Consonant phonemes may differ.
Eye rhyme, Sight rhyme, Spelling rhyme words that look like they should rhyme by their spellings, but don’t by their phonemes
Head rhyme, beginning rhyme alliteration rhyming the first phoneme of multiple words
Internal rhyme rhyming the middles of lines End rhyme, Tail rhyme, Terminal rhyme rhyming the ends of lines
Alternating rhyme
Apocopated rhyme
Approximate rhyme
Assonant rhyme
Broken rhyme
Caesural rhyme
Cross rhyme
Crossed rhyme
Dactylic rhyme
Envelope rhyme
Extended rhyme
Extra-syllable rhyme
Forced rhyme
Holorhyme
Homonym rhyme
Initial rhyme
Inserted rhyme
Interlaced rhyme, Interlocking rhyme
Intermittent rhyme
Irregular rhyme
Leonine rhyme
Light rhyme
Linked rhyme
Macaronic rhyme
Medial rhyme
Mind rhyme
Misplaced-rhyme scheme
Mosaic rhyme
Multisyllabic rhyme
Occasional rhyme
Off-centered rhyme
One-syllable rhyme
Punning rhyme
Rhyme in Verse
Rime couée
Scarce rhyme
Semirhyme
Spoken word rhyme style
Sporadic rhyme
Sprung rhyme
Super-rhyme
Syllabic rhyme
Thorn line
Unaccented rhyme
Weak rhyme
Wrenched rhyme
Alliteration
Homophone
Homonym
Identity
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