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	Slant Rhymes in Poetry and Hip-Hop Lesson Plan
		Slant rhyme was looked down upon by most Western poets until Yeats in England and Dickinson in America wrote slanted rhyme poems that critics couldn’t ignore.
		What the use of slanted rhyme does allow, however, is for Kweii to work out the content he wants: painting a picture of himself as a young man. The "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a reference to the James Joyce book of the same name.
		The perfect rhyme at the beginning of the rap seem to mirror the idea of "maintaining" as though somehow his rhymes are both his sanity and his insanity.
	www.flocabulary.com /teacher/lessonplanslant.html (1934 words)

	Guide to Verse Forms - Rhyme
		Another form of internal rhyme has a word in the middle of one line rhyming with the the word at the end of a different line; this is sometimes called cross rhyme - which is liable to be confused with cross-rhyme, a particular kind of 4-line stanza.
		One particular form of cross rhyme, in which the word at the end of one line rhymes with a line in the middle of the next, is common in Irish poetry, where it is known as aicill rhyme.
		Rhyming a word in the middle of one line with a word in the middle of another is called interlaced rhyme.
	www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com /vf/rhyme.htm (2931 words)

	Rhyme Scheme
		One case to notice is in the second stanza, where "peonies" [pronounced "pee-oh-neez"] is used to rhyme with "eyes." This is an instance of what is called slant rhyme (sometimes also called eye rhyme), where the two words do not rhyme perfectly (usually the discrepancy is in the vowel sound).
		Internal rhyme happens when two words in a poem rhyme, but at least one is not located at the end of a line.
		Rhyme schemes, especially ones that repeat (as this one does), are often written in the following form: a b a b c d e c d e.
	www.csuchico.edu /~pkittle/101/keats-rhyme.html (263 words)

	Rhyme in Ghazals
		The addition of "-s" or "-ed" to rhyme words, if used extremely sparingly--I would suggest one per ghazal, possibly two if the poem is long enough--can add a slight alteration to the mono-rhyme, and keep the whole poem fresh and buoyant.
		However, as a half of the rhyme-refrain combo that strings the beads of the stanzas together, rhyme should be one of the major focuses when attempting to write ghazals.
		By varying the parts of speech used in rhyme, by varying the syllabic count of rhyme words, and, in cases of extreme playfulness, by rhyming masculine and feminine words together, a poet can avoid some of the common paths that lead towards unsuccessful ghazals.
	www.ghazalpage.net /prose/notes/rhyme_josh.html (1056 words)

	virtuaLit: Rhyme in “My Papa’s Waltz”
		The poem is dominated by end rhyme, but each of the first two stanzas contains one slant rhyme, while the rhymes in the final two stanzas are all true.
		These are slant rhymes—that is, inexact rhymes—rather than the true rhymes that dominate the rest of the poem, except for lines 5 and 7.
		There are no slant rhymes here; the structure is less relaxed, which leaves the reader feeling tense and uneasy.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /virtualit/poetry/waltz_exercises/waltz_rhyme_ex.html (226 words)

	LitGloss - R
		Rhyme is predominantly a function of sound rather than spelling; thus, words that end with the same vowel sounds rhyme, for instance, day, prey, bouquet, weigh, and words with the same consonant ending rhyme, for instance vain, feign, rein, lane.
		End rhyme is the most common form of rhyme in poetry; the rhyme comes at the end of the lines.
		Rhyme schemes are mapped out by noting patterns of rhyme with small letters: the first rhyme sound is designated a, the second becomes b, the third c, and so on.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litgloss/LitGlosscode/litgloss_r.html (673 words)

	Rhyming and Songwriting
		Rhyme is based on the sound of the words to the ear.
		Slant Rhymes (aka: half rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme, oblique, off rhyme, suspended rhyme, analyzed rhyme) - words that feel like they rhyme but the don't rhyme exactly.
		The rhyme scheme is based on the "End of Line" rhymes and not the "Inner Line" rhymes.
	www.michael-thomas.com /music/songwriting/rhyming.htm (345 words)

	Featured: Does Slant Rhyme with Can't? Rod Miller Writing Cowboy ...
		Slant rhyme is, in fact, a legitimate technique long employed by English-language poets, including those who use cowboy lingo.
		By the same token, slant rhyme that fails to lift a poem to loftier heights of language is every bit as useless as a poorly made strict rhyme.
		Slant rhyme is not a license to be sloppy, nor is it an excuse to be lazy.
	www.cowboypoetry.com /slant.htm (2826 words)

	Tools for Analyzing Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rhyme is the repetition of a syllable or syllables with identical or very similar sounds at the end of words.
		Rhyming words usually occur at the end of lines of poetry, although internal rhymes sometimes can be found.
		rhyme (also called "slant rhyme"): the final syllable or syllables are similar but not identical, usually examples of assonance (ruse / smooth) or consonance (groaned / ground)
	www.cnr.edu /home/bmcmanus/rhyme.html (178 words)

	The Alsop Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		I, in common with other formalists, also applaud the skilled use of slant rhyme, what I do not accept is the flitting from true to slant and vice versa within a poem as a form of cheap convenience, or sometimes justified 'because it carries the sense'.
		You and I have had a few exchanges regarding the usefulness of this kind of rhyme, and I agree with you that its use in formal poetry should probably be cautious, but it may be spontaneous and "natural" for poets who are influenced by the musical tradition that draws on Elizabethan origins.
		As we seem to be expanding from questions of rhyme to repetitive sonics in general, perhaps we should consider the relationship of assonance and consonance to rhyme in an historical setting.
	www.alsopreview.com /gaz/noted/rhymequestion.html (3806 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY, Letter S
		Sidelight: Sight rhymes may occasionally be used for their contribution to the visual aspect of poetry.
		The exceptions, such as the stanzas in tail rhyme and Sapphic verse, in which the lines are not all of the same length and meter, are said to be anisometric or heterometric.
		Some stanzas follow a set rhyme scheme and meter in addition to the number of lines and are given specific names to describe them, such as, ballad meter, ottava rima, rhyme royal, terza rima, and Spenserian stanza.
	www.poeticbyway.com /gl-s.html (2844 words)

	Glossary of Rhymes
		It may be tempting, simply because the terms are listed here, to get overly scrupulous about fine distinctions between, for example, "identical" and "rich" rhyme, or "broken" as opposed to "linked" rhyme--but these are distinctions that rarely find practical sanction in critical usage and are often much more useful for the writer.
		English is often said to be poor in rhyme, as opposed to, for example, the Romance languages, but this glossary and definition of terms will point to a rich variety of choices.
		Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress: frog/dialog, live/prohibitive.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aarios/formsofverse/furtherreading/page2.html (687 words)

	Poetry: Sound Effects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rhyme is used to form patterns and units of lines, to show relationships between and among lines.
		Less common rhyme is internal rhyme which usually means the middle of a line rhymes with the end of the same line, or with the end of the previous line.
		Slant rhyme: if the rhyme is close, but not exact, that’s slant rhyme (often a problem in older poetry if the words have changed so that they are no longer close.)
	web.cocc.edu /eng101el/poetsounds.html (752 words)

	OWL at Purdue University: Sound
		A rhyme scheme is typically shown with letters representing the patterns that the rhymes make throughout the poem.
		All of us have read ineffective poems where the rhymes sounded like "the cat sat on the mat" and we felt like we were being forced into a box that felt both unnatural and unnerving.
		Since one of the poet’s end goals is inevitably to make their structure work for the poem so well that it is not obvious at first that it is even there at all, then the effective use of the different kinds of rhyme can serve these ends.
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/general/gl_sound.html (1388 words)

	MyFiles\mwrhyme
		Note that rhyme is based on the word's sound, not its spelling, though sometimes the sound has changed in modern times from what it once was.
		Rhymes, then, especially if not all the lines in the poem are rhymed, are used to stress important ideas or to create units within the poem.
		For instance, rhymes were often used at the ends of scenes or acts in blank verse plays, to indicate the conclusion of a unit of action.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/pcraddoc/mwrhyme.htm (1300 words)

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		For example: choice and voice End rhyme occurs when the rhyme is at the end of two lines of poetry.
		For example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I wandered weak and weary Slant rhyme means that the two words are alike in some sound but do not rhyme exactly.
		Rhyme scheme is the pattern formed by the end rhyme of a poem.
	www.killenglish.homestead.com /rhyme.doc (294 words)

	Medieval poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alliterative verse, where many of the stressed words in each line start with the same sound, was often used in the local poetry of that time.
		Other features of vernacular poetry of this time include kennings, internal rhyme, and slant rhyme.
		Indeed Latin poetry traditionally used meter rather than rhyme and only began to adopt rhyme after being influenced by these new poems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_poetry (563 words)

	Slant-Rhyme
		I put this program together because I was tired of leafing back and forth through rhyming dictionaries for slant rhymes, imperfect rhymes, off-rhymes, or whatever else you want to call them.
		Generally, you will first want to try to find a perfect rhyme, then rhymes with the same family ending; plosive (b, d, g, k, p, and t), fricative (ch, f, j, s, sh, v, z), or nasal (m, n, ng), and then, any slant-rhyme that works.
		Also, remember it is very important to use a rhyme which doesn’t force the singer to place the accent on the wrong syllable of a word.
	lyricpro.com /LyricProSlantRhymes.htm (566 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY, Letter N
		Also called approximate rhyme, slant rhyme, off rhyme, imperfect rhyme, or half rhyme, a rhyme in which the sounds are similar, but not exact, as in home and come or close and lose.
		Sidelight: Due to changes in pronunciation, some near rhymes in modern English were perfect rhymes when they were originally written in Old English.
		Poetry which is absurd, foolish or preposterous, usually written in a catchy meter with strong rhymes.
	www.poeticbyway.com /gl-n.html (402 words)

	Amazon.com: "true rhyme": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Notice the true rhyme (a perfect rhyme) in the final words in the third and fourth lines: night and height.
		Yet the story turns upon the same sad pertinent fact: that the only rhyme that is not a true rhyme, the only one that is a rhyme only to the eye and not to the ear, is chord/word.
		In line 2, "everyone who was anyone" is neither an alliteration nor a true rhyme, but a semirhyme and a good example of an echo; in line 10, "cursed and cried and called"-take note that...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/true-rhyme (477 words)

	Line and Rhyme
		Rhyme is invaluable in songwriting, from the strong lyrics of a rock song to the spirited wit and irony of Stephen Sondheim or Cole Porter.
		Further, not a little of what we perceive as slant rhyme in poets from centuries back is due to shifts of stress and sound that have occurred in the evolution of dialects and accents.
		Rhyme begins as a child's game, and those who don't escape that game tend to write rhymes that are easy, even trite, which may be perfectly all right in a musical lyric, comic poetry or, occasionally, in serious poetry.
	www.n2hos.com /acm/prospart3.html (1904 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms
		The rhyme scheme may follow a fixed pattern (as in a sonnet) or may be arranged freely according to the poet's requirements.
		Alliteration, assonance, and consonance are accepted as slant rhyme due to their usage of sound combinations (spilled and spoiled, chitter and chatter).
		Slant rhyme was most common in the Irish, Welsh and Icelandic verse and prose long before Henry Vaughn used it in English.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm (9849 words)

	Sounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Though there are multiple metrical substitutions in these lines, Sassoon maintains rhythmical integrity by using internal slant rhyme in almost each of the lines 7-12.
		Though some rhymes are purer than other, they each act similarly: to preserve the ear's interest amongst lines, that could be called doggerel in respect to metrical regularity of the rest of the first stanza.
		Take note that the rhyming words generally come in the second foot of the line, which could be considered a heavy regulating beat for the line.
	mason.gmu.edu /~jbaugher/CounterAttack/Sounds.html (239 words)

	Comments on 13364 \| Ask MetaFilter
		It is important to remember that traditional English versification, despite the importance awarded rhyming in popular forms such as the limerick and the sonnet, places more importance on stressed and non-stressed syllables and the amount of syllables (the meter).
		There's also eye rhyme, which may be intentional or the result of vowel shift...
		The fact that the rhyme is not-quite-right only serves to draw your attention to the point he's trying to make.
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	Free-Essays.us - Emily Dickinson: A Pastiche And Explication
		The most common characteristics of Dickinson’s poetry is her use of slant rhyme, her unconventional use of punctuation and capitalization, and the influence of her Puritan upbringing on the content and structure of her poetry.
		In “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”, slant rhyme is seen early in the poem in the first verse.
		Slant rhymes are also found in lines six and seven, where Dickinson pairs the words firm and room.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/c7/tmw89.shtml (1015 words)

	Why Roger Waters' Lyrics Are Better Than David Gilmour's
		A slant rhyme is one that rhymes on the vowels or consonants, whereas an identical rhyme is just that: two words that sound alike.
		In this verse, "visions" and"prisoner" are slant rhymes, as are "raver" and "painter," "piper" and "shine." Though I would be inclined to break this single line into two or four, the printed lyrics indicate that this is a single line, so these rhymes are also internal.
		In this example, "linear," "memory" and "history" are internal slant rhymes, as are "man" and "hands." "Fools" and "tool" are internal identical rhymes.
	www.ingsoc.com /waters/personal/alaceky.html (2454 words)

	Sloppiness or Vitality? — Rhyming in Current Poetry by Daniel Corrie \| Poetry at Able Muse \| Critical Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		To better grasp this reputation’s apparent rehabilitation, it will be helpful briefly to look backward in time to gain some historical perspective of disapproval and stirrings in the direction of acceptance of such assonant end-rhymes as husk/dust, call/waft, and swept/depths.
		Wood singles out both consonance and assonance as “incorrect rhyme.” In the case of the former, he notes the unacceptability of such consonant slant rhyme (or “sour rhyme”) as earth/hearth and silver/deliver.
		However, even as Wood was pontificating on the slovenliness of consonant slant rhyme-endings, Yeats and Hopkins were in the midst of writing the poems which brought about their acceptance in British and American poetry.
	www.ablemuse.com /essays/d-corrie_rhyme.htm (142 words)

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		If these rules of form are not followed than we would praise the work of any poet if its good poetry (certainly not condemn it for it is not in a ghazal form) but definitely would not call the composition a 'ghazal'.
		It is a kind of rhyme that > derives its pleasure precisely from the fact that it is a rhyme, yet > not precise: it thus subverts expectation, as it were.
		Words such as ruin/barren or floods/tides more then saying they rhyme are, in my opinion similar meaning words that any poet will use to beautify poetry in any language.
	www.urdustan.com /alup/bahar02-10.txt (1569 words)

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