Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds in two or more words. There are three types of perfect rhymes: masculine, feminine, and triple. Holorhyme is when the rhyme extends to the beginning of the line so that two lines sound identical. Examples are provided to illustrate different types of rhymes including perfect rhyme, feminine rhyme, and rhyme schemes in bound verse.

1. RHYME
• Rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two
or more words.
For example: news and views.
The last three sounds of the words are same
but the spelling is different

2. Types of rhyme
• The word rhyme can be used in a specific and
a general sense.
• In the specific sense, two words rhyme if their
final stressed vowel and all following sounds
are identical; A rhyme in the strict sense is
also called a perfect rhyme.
• Examples are sight and flight, deign and gain,
madness and sadness.

3. There are three types of perfect
rhymes
1. masculine rhymes, in which the final syllable
of the word or line is stressed ("spring,"
"bring");
2. feminine rhymes, in which two consecutive
syllables, the first of which is accented, are
alike in sound ("certain," "curtain");
3. triple rhymes, in which all three syllables of a
word are identical ("flowery," "showery").

4. holorhyme
• In the rhyme aspect, rhyme extends all the way to
the beginning of the line, so that there are two lines
that sound identical, then it is called a "holorhyme“.
Here are more examples:
Ice cream I scream > faced old face told
Known aim no name > cooks take cook steak
Clocks tops clock stops > an ocean a notion

5. The examples of rhyme
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,

6. • The rhyming words in bound verse follow set
patterns. These patterns are marked by the letters
of the alphabet starting with A.
• Example:
• Take my nice, new shiny nickel (A) 4 feet
Sell me that juicy, garlic pickle! (A) 4 feet
• Examples:
• Silver jet soars across the sky
Just like a giant butterfly
• Sally has a bandage on her nose
She didn't know the door was closed

7. • The rhyming words in bound verse follow set
patterns. These patterns are marked by the letters
of the alphabet starting with A.
• Example:Awakening
The presents that you bring (A)
Are not only just for me (B)
Because you brought the spring. (A)

8. • Example:The lizard
• The lizard is a timid thing (A)
That cannot dance or fly or sing; (A)
He hunts for bugs beneath the floor (B)
And longs to be a dinosaur. (B)