Slant rhyme is also called imperfect rhyme in contrast to perfect rhyme. Perfect rhymes are formed by words with identical stressed vowel sounds. “Sky” and “high” are examples of perfect rhymes. A perfect rhyme is also called an exact rhyme, full rhyme, or true rhyme.

Changing Consonant Sounds to Use Approximate Rhyme For example, ‘grudge’ and ‘love’. The vowel sounds in these two words are the same, but the ‘dg’ sound is similar to, but not the exact same as, the ‘v’ sound. Other examples include ‘dusk’ and ‘must’, ‘stank’ and ‘stand’ and ‘bring’ and ‘brink’.

A single line of poetry can contain internal rhyme (with multiple words in the same line rhyming), or the rhyming words can occur across multiple lines. An example of internal rhyme would be “I drove myself to the lake / and dove into the water.” Internal rhyme is also sometimes referred to as “middle rhyme.”

Edit. In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is a rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme. Internal rhyme is used extensively in rap/hip hop music, where it sometimes overlaps with assonance.

External Rhyme Defined External rhyme is rhyme that occurs in the last words of each line in a poem. Because it is at the end of each line, it is also known as end rhyme. ‘Day’ rhymes with ‘play’, and ‘same’ rhymes with ‘game’. This is a great example of using end rhyme to create the rhythm.

End Rhyme. End rhyme consists of the rhyming words at the end of each line. In each stanza in “The Raven,” the end rhymes of the first and third lines alternate, while the second, fourth, fifth and sixth lines are always “B.” For example, the rhyme scheme in the first stanza in “The Raven” is ABCBBB.

Rhyme schemes are described using letters of the alphabet, such that all the lines in a poem that rhyme with each other are assigned a letter, beginning with “A.” For example, a four-line poem in which the first line rhymes with the third line, and the second line rhymes with the fourth line has the rhyme scheme ABAB.