Rhyme is the repetition or acoustic similarity, between two or more verses, of a certain number of phonemes or sounds starting from the last stressed vowel. It is considered a rhythmic element of the text in verse. It is used in songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and poetry. The importance is that the words that rhyme and have the same timbre, are the representation of the phonemes, in a non-articulated reading there is always the feeling of that acoustic equivalence.
What is a rhyme
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What rhyme means is nothing more than the resources used to give the text an attractive and musical cadence. It involves the repetition of phonemes or sounds at the end of two or more verses taken from the last stressed syllable, evidencing words that rhyme. They can be found in poetry, riddles, sayings, tongue twisters and rhyming songs, nowadays even in the style of raps. Depending on how the repetitions are, the verses respond to different classifications.
Difference between rhymes and couplets
What rhyme is, is the repetition of the stressed syllable at the end of two or more verses. These verses that are assonance can help to transmit values, norms or knowledge. On the other hand, the couplets are stanzas of four lines, which rhyme the second and fourth lines with a rhyme of assonance.
Types of rhyme
The verse is a tool that uses repetitive patterns that give rise to a musicality or rhythm in poems. Lullabies contain many verses and in turn serve as learning while children enjoy their readings.
Repetitive patterns in songs, rhyming poems, and readings allow you to memorize them more easily.
Here are the types of rhymes:
Consonant:
It also receives the names of consonance, perfect or total. This type of verse occurs when there is an equality of sound from the last stressed vowel to the end of the rhyming words, example coso / toso, lady / bed.
Examples of consonant rhymes:
"At three in the morning
I began to hear a cricket
was very busy
sharpening his knife"
"
A bug is walking down a narrow path,
the name of this animal
I have already told you"
Tongue twister
"If the servant does not serve you, it
does not serve you as a servant,
what is the use of using a servant who does not serve"
Mexican song
"An apple of fruit would sell,
plums, apricot, melon or watermelon,
verbena, verbena, matatena garden,
verbena, verbena, matatena garden, golden
bell, let me pass
with all the children except the one behind,
after, after, after, after, it
will be melon, it will be watermelon, it will be the old woman from the other day
Assonant:
It also receives the name of imperfect, assonance or partial rhyme. In this type of verse, the vowel sounds are the same from the last stressed vowel. The sounds are not marked because the consonants are not repeated and since the vowels are the same, the sounds are more subtle and a sensation of a casual sound is created, for example, child / alive, glass / tapo.
If from the last accented vowel only the vowel phonemes are repeated, the verse is considered as assonant, as vowels always predominate, it is also called vowel or imperfect rhyme.
Examples of assonance rhymes:
"My gentleman" by José Martí
In the morning
My little boy
woke me up
With a big kiss.
Straddling
my chest,
Bridas forged
With my hair.
He was
drunk with joy, With joy I was drunk, My knight
spurred on
Me:
What soft spur
His two fresh feet!
How
My Jinetuelo laughed !
And I was kissing
His little feet,
Two feet that fit
In just one kiss!
"The ecstatic eyes" by Miriam Elim
In the sweetness of waiting, my
eyes have been ecstatic.
Another sun and another moon
will come and they will find me like this:
Keep your hands away, before
shadowed flowers of prayer the pupils of mystery…
Another sun and another moon will return
without my yearning getting tired
In the sweetness of waiting, my
eyes have been ecstatic.
How to compose a rhyme
It can be composed as follows:
- Think of all the verse possibilities before moving on to one.
- Hide rhymes in longer words.
- Choose the appropriate words. If none of the words work, consider changing the keyword to a synonym for it.
- Use assonance verses and consonant verses.
- Consult a dictionary of poems.
- Always use verses to improve the piece
Rhyme combinations
These verses are used especially to support the cognitive processes of the child, so children's rhymes are used in songs that promote action through this combination of sounds and words that rhyme. The sequence is presented in three activities for children to learn to invent poems, recognizing the final syllables in different words.
1. Combinations of words with consonant rhyme
scream - repeat
excitement - salvation
resource -
vibro contest -
greeting book - hairy
hard - safe
2. Assonance rhyming word combinations
island - life
took out -
downpour fell -
friend memory -
cell shake - you will fire
worm - snack
Continuous rhyme
It is when the verses repeat the same rhythm. It happened in medieval times, the cult verse with continuous consonant rhyme (AAA) was very frequent. The verse in popular romances is continuous, and assonance in even verses (-aaa):
Example:
In the middle was an old laurel, A
very thick branches, a very healthy trunk, A
a very lush orchard covered the earth: A
was always green in winter and summer. A
("Book of Alexandre")
Twin rhyme
It is one that is established between two verses in a row. It is the one used in couplets (stanzas of two verses), but it is also used in other stanzas, such as in the real eighth (in verses seven and eight).
Examples:
The stars are not your symbols,
for you are the gods symbols of them.
(Manuel Mantero)
Spring has come.
Nobody knows how it was.
(Antonio Machado)
Hugging rhyme
It is the one where two verses that rhyme embrace, that is, they enclose, other two verses with the same consonance (ABBA):
Example:
Under the canopy of gigantic rock A
lies the titan, like Christ on Calvary, B
marble, indifferent and lonely, B
without the groaning from his mouth. A
(Julián del Casal, “Prometheus”)
Chained rhyme
Chained is the moment when the verse is intertwined throughout the stanzas.
Example:
Desire - A
Anger - B
I see - A
I choose - B
Employment - A
Dispossession - B
Cross rhyme
It is the one where the verses of a stanza have consonance, the first with the third and the second with the fourth (ABAB):
Example:
Divine treasure youth, A, you're leaving to never return! B
When I want to cry I don't cry… A
and sometimes I cry without meaning to. B
(Rubén Darío, "Song of Autumn in Spring")
Alternating rhyme
It is the one in which the even verses are assonance on the one hand and the odd verses are assonance on the other, that is why it is said that, in a stanza of 4 verses, verse 1 agrees with 3 and 2 with 4. It is for this reason why it is called alternate and has a structure (ABAB) where A is the rhyme and on the side B is the other pair of rhymes.
This type of verse is generally used in songs and poetry.
Example of a song fragment:
“To make matters worse, a commission (A)
untied the tweet. (B)
and she left very easy. (A)
to play with sawdust. ”. (B)
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