Rhyme in Children's Poetry

Perfect rhyme occurs when two words have the same vowel sound and the same consonant sound at the end.

Slant rhyme occurs when two words have the same vowel sound but different consonant sounds at the end.

Near rhyme occurs when two words have similar but not identical vowel sounds and consonant sounds at the end.

Eye rhyme occurs when two words are spelled the same but pronounced differently.

Internal rhyme occurs when two words rhyme within the same line of poetry.

End rhyme occurs when two words rhyme at the end of two different lines of poetry.

Masculine rhyme occurs when two words rhyme on their final stressed syllable.

Feminine rhyme occurs when two words rhyme on their final two stressed syllables.

Double rhyme occurs when two consecutive pairs of words rhyme.

Triple rhyme occurs when three consecutive words rhyme.

A rhyming couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that rhyme.

A rhyming quatrain is a four-line stanza of poetry in which the second and fourth lines rhyme.

A rhyming limerick is a five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme: AABBA.

A rhyming ballad is a type of narrative poem that tells a story in a series of rhyming stanzas.

A rhyming riddle is a type of riddle that uses rhyme to create a puzzle for the reader to solve.