Literature: Poetry

Rhyme Schemes: is a way of describing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with “A,” then “B,” and so on. If an end sound repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the same letter as the earlier line.

Near Rhyme: two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common (such as stopped and wept, or parable and shell)

Internal Rhyme: the word internal means inside, so an internal rhyme is a pattern of rhyming words inside the same line.

External Rhyme:  when the final words of lines in a poem rhyme.