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Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse, as in “the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother” (Dylan Thomas).


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internal rhyme, a poetic device by which two or more words rhyme within the same line of verse, as in Kipling's reactionary poem ‘The City of Brass’ (1909):

Men swift to see done, and outrun, their extremest commanding—
Of the tribe which describe with a jibe the perversions of Justice—
Panders avowed to the crowd whatsoever its lust is.
A special case of internal rhyme between words at the middle and the end of certain lines is leonine rhyme. See also crossed rhyme.

 
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Also called middle rhyme, a rhyme occurring within the line. The rhyme may be with words within the line but not at the line end, or with a word at the line end and a word within the line.

 
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In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse.

Internal rhyme occurs in the middle of a line, as in these lines from Coleridge, "In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud" or "Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white" ("The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), or in "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Internal rhyme is also used extensively in modern hip hop music, being pioneered by Rakim in the 1980s.[1][2] More internal rhyme from "The Raven" by Edgar Alen Poe is as follows:[3]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
         While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
                                  Only this, and nothing more."

References

  1. ^ Salaam, Mtume ya (June 22, 1995). "The Aesthetics of Rap". African American Review.
  2. ^ allmusic ((( Rakim > Biography ))). Allmusic. Accessed May 22, 2008.
  3. ^ Strachan, John; Terry, Richard (2000). Poetry, p. 63. Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0748610456.
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