Internal rhyme
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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."
[edit] References
- ^ Salaam, Mtume ya (June 22, 1995). "The Aesthetics of Rap". African American Review.
- ^ allmusic ((( Rakim > Biography ))). Allmusic. Accessed May 22, 2008.
- ^ Strachan, John; Terry, Richard (2000). Poetry, p. 63. Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0748610456.
 |
This poetry-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
