RHYME

“Excellent rhymes surprise. It is all very well that a reader may anticipate which vowel-sound is coming next, for patterns of rhyme give pleasure by satisfying expectations; but rhyming becomes dull clunking if, at the end of each line, the reader can predict the word that will end the next.


“Where’er you find “the cooling western breeze,”
In the next line it “whispers through the trees”;
If crystal streams “with pleasing murmurs creep,”
The reader’s threatened (not in vain) with “sleep”… - Alexander Pope

“But who – given the opening line of this comic poem – could predict the lines that follow?” (Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Kennedy & Gioia, 600-601).

Read the following poem, then answer the qeustions below:

On My Boat on Lake Cayuga

On my boat on Lake Cayuga
I have a horn that goes “Ay-oogah!”
I’m not the modern kind of creep
Who has a horn that goes “beep beep.”

William Cole
(1919-2000)

Define the following types of rhyme, then try to write your own rhyme using each type:
http://people.usd.edu/~mrogge/RDTN/210poetryterms.html

EXACT RHYME

CONSONANCE

END RHYME

MASCULINE RHYME

FEMININE RHYME

What type of rhyme does Cole’s poem have?


What is the RHYME SCHEME in Cole’s poem?

SEARCH:
Using print and/or internet sources, please find THREE poems that clearly show THREE different types of rhyming. Copy the poem, label the type of rhyme used, and be sure to write down the TITLE, POET, and URL/PUBLISHER.