What is a rhyme?
Explain its varieties with the help of examples of cach.
Ans.Rhyme is the repetition of identical sounds at the end of the lines. Poets use rhyme for three major purposes, i.e. • The recurrence of the same sequence of sounds has a pleasing effect; • It also marks the end of line; and • It binds the lines together and achieves unity. The importance of rhyme in poetry is related to its sound pattern. The repctition of similar or identical sounds at regular intervals, usually those of words at the end of lines is called rhyme. It plays an important part in poetry as they pay attention to the sound of words. At times, rhymes function as makers, signaling the end of a rhythmical unit. As rhyme generally consists of the identity of sounds at the end of lines of verse, let's take the following examples: Faith is not built on disquisitions vain; The things we must believe are few or plain Above 'vain' and 'plain' are rhyming words. Here, both are accented monosyllabic words. Such a rhyme is called masculine.
When the accented syllable is followed by an unaccented syllable (as in 'hounding' and 'bounding') the rhyme is called feminine. An example is given below: yme. Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window big good-morrow. Here, 'sorrow' and 'morrow' are bisyllabic words and the accent falls on the first syllables. Double rhyme poctry is also present here. A rhyme involving three syllables is called a triple rhyme; such rhymes, since they coincide with surprising patness, usually have a comic quality. In Don Juan (1819-24) Byron often uses triple rhymes such as comparison-garrison, and sometimes intensifies the comic effect by permitting the pressure of the rhyme to force a distortion of the pronunciation; thus he addresses the husbands of learned wives: But-Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all? Sometimes syllables within the same line may rhyme as in the last stanza of Browning's 'Confessions': Alas, We loved, sir-used to meet; How sad and bad and mad it was- But then how it was sweet! The words 'sad', 'bad' and 'mad' in the passage above rhyme though within the same line. This is an example of internal rhyme. When rhymes are only rhymes in appearance and not is sound as in the case of 'alone' and 'done' or 'remove' and 'love' we have eye rhyme.
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