Perfect rhyme--also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, or true rhyme--is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions:
- The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, "sky" and "high"; "skylight" and "highlight".
- The articulation that precedes the vowel in the words must differ. For example, "bean" and "green" is a perfect rhyme, while "leave" and "believe" is not.
Word pairs that satisfy the first condition but not the second (such as the aforementioned "leave" and "believe") are technically identities (also known as identical rhymes or identicals). Homophones, being words of different meaning but identical pronunciation, are an example of identical rhyme.
Video Perfect and imperfect rhymes
Imperfect rhyme
Half rhyme or imperfect rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme, lazy rhyme, or slant rhyme, is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. This type of rhyme is also called approximate rhyme, inexact rhyme, imperfect rhyme (in contrast to perfect rhyme), off rhyme, analyzed rhyme, suspended rhyme, or sprung rhyme.
Use in hip hop/rap
Half rhyme is often used, along with assonance, in rap music. This can be used to avoid rhyming clichés (e.g. rhyming "knowledge" with "college") or obvious rhymes, and gives the writer greater freedom and flexibility in forming lines of verse. Additionally, some words have no perfect rhyme in English, necessitating the use of slant rhyme. The use of half rhyme may also enable the construction of longer multisyllabic rhymes than otherwise possible.
In the following lines from the song "N.Y. State of Mind" by rapper Nas, the author uses half rhyme in a complex cross rhyme pattern:
Unconventional exceptions
Children's nursery rhyme This Little Piggy displays an unconventional case of slant rhyme. The author rhymes "home" with "none".
In The Hives's Dead Quote Olympics, singer Howlin' Pelle Almqvist rhymes "idea" with "library":
The Chuck Berry song "Let It Rock" (1960) rhymes "Alabama" with "hammer":
Maps Perfect and imperfect rhymes
See also
- Holorime
- Internal rhyme
- Monorhyme
- Rime riche
References
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