Rhyme

A sonnet is a fixed poetic form with a structure traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. The term derives from the Italian word sonetto (, from the Latin word sonus, ). Originating in 13th-century Sicily, the sonnet was in time taken up in many European-language areas, mainly to express romantic love at first, although eventually any subject was considered acceptable. Many formal variations were also introduced, including abandonment of the quatorzain limit – and even of rhyme altogether in modern times.

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. More broadly, a rhyme may also variously refer to other types of similar sounds near the ends of two or more words. Furthermore, the word rhyme has come to be sometimes used as a shorthand term for any brief poem, such as a nursery rhyme or Balliol rhyme.

A sestina (, from sesto, sixth; Old Occitan: cledisat ; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern.

thumb|right|300px|alt=Rural landscape with grassy cliff top to the right, sea and shore in the background to the left. Shepherd in a blue smock stands on cliff top to the right, leaning on his staff, with a flock of sheep grazing around him.|A classic pastoral scene, depicting a shepherd with his livestock; a pastoral subject was the initial distinguishing feature of the villanelle. Painting by , 19th century. A villanelle, also known as villanesque, is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first

rhyming stanza form; seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-b-c-c

specialist dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics

In the poetic traditions of the Islamic East, particularly in Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazals, the radīf (from the Arabic linguistic root , meaning 'the one riding behind') refers to a specific word or short phrase that must consistently end each line of the opening couplet and the second line of all subsequent couplets.

ancient type of Chinese dictionary that collates characters by tone and rhyme

figure of speech

Monorhyme is a passage, stanza, or entire poem in which all lines have the same end rhyme. The term "monorhyme" describes the use of one (mono) type of repetitious sound (rhyme). This is common in Arabic, Persian, Latin and Welsh work, such as The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, e.g., qasida and its derivative kafi.

pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song

Holorime (or holorhyme) is a form of rhyme where two very similar sequences of sounds can form phrases composed of different words and with different meanings. For example, the two lines of Miles Kington's poem "A Lowlands Holiday Ends in Enjoyable Inactivity" are pronounced the same in some British English dialects:

any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it

rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines

syllable chart of the Chinese language

rhyme which satisfies certain conditions on the phonemes of the words involved

Qāfiya (from Arabic: , ; ; ; ; ) is the classical Islamic prosodic term for rhyme.

cognitive bias

Tanaga is a type of Philippine poetry, traditionally in the Tagalog language, consisting of four lines with seven syllables each. It can also have rhymes schemes like AABB and ABAB.