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The rhyme It occurs when the combination of phonemes that make up a sentence or a statement give a certain musicality and rhythm to the succession of words, causing certain sounds to be repeated. Rhyme is associated with the aesthetics of the texts and not with grammar.
Although rhyme is the distinctive and key element of traditional poetry, rhymes may also be featured in other texts.
There are two types of rhymes:
- Consonant rhymes. Also calls perfect rhymes, are those in which all the phonemes of different verses coincide from the stressed vowel. For example: emotion / locomotion
- Assonance rhymes. Also called imperfect rhymes, are the ones that coincide in the sound of the vowels of each word from the stressed vowel, but the consonants in between differ. It is a much more imprecise rhyme and has to do almost entirely with the sound of the words and verses, which leads us to consider more than the different forms of rhymes, the different forms of verses. For example: song / mouse.
Examples of assonance rhymes
Writers, popular singer-songwriters and poets from around the world have left for posterity some assonance rhymes like the following:
- ‘Sighs and fragrancecias / in the shadow of the raplus'(Juan Ramón Jiménez)
- ‘The men in the trigal / for a piece of bread’(Atahualpa Yupanqui)
- ‘Without any inscriptionna / there will be my tumba'(Gustavo Adolfo Becker)
- 'To whom has the sky sentthe / for good and I protect ourtro’(Anonymous romance)
- ‘He is taking olive oilna / grabs her by the beltra'(Federico García Lorca)
- ‘The light fell like waterAC / of fresh strengthza' (Pablo Neruda)
- ‘And I have thought about their ojos / and on his feet numberyou are' (Cesar Vallejo)
- ‘A whitera / the penumbra' (Jorge Luis Borges)
- 'I'm tired, claro / because at this point one has to be tireddo'(Fernando Pessoa)
- 'From the bus trailsAC / on the rock dura'(Gustavo Adolfo Becker)
- Bridge of my soledad / through the eyes of my deathtea / your waters go to the mar / to the sea from which it does not turngo (Emilio Prados)
- When midnight arrives / and the Ni burst into tearsno / the hundred beasts woke up / and the stable was seenvo (Gabriela Mistral)
- Today I have found withered / all the flowers of the huerto / already in the air there are no perfumes / already pronto winter will come (Juan Ramón Jiménez)
- I would like to walk your pethe / I would like to spend the night in your skin / think it was a dreamno / after discovering you again (Luis Miguel)
Children's assonance rhymes:
- A devil fell into the water / another devil knowsco/ And another devil would say to him: / How does the devil fallI?
- There was the pajara painting / sitting in her green limon / with the beak picks up the branch / with the branch picks up the flower.
- There was the old bird / shot down in the old rinwith / with his paw he removes the feathers / shaken from a hard temblor.
- The cradle, almost in shade. The child sleeps. / Two industrious fairies accompanied himñan, / spinning from dreams the subtle / flakes on ivory and silver spinning wheelsta.
- Your brown eyes / they look like you / because they blink / like a colibrí.
- Yesterday picking potatoes / I got fat like a gato, / and today I can't bend down / or put on my shoescough.
Follow with:
- Examples of short poems
- Examples of short verses
- Examples of words that rhyme
Rhymes in history
The history of poetry has a lot to do with the cultures of each place at different times, and a retrospective analysis allows us to glimpse variations in the way of assigning metrics to what is sung or written around the world.
This left as a legacy many different forms of stanza, classified in general according to the length of the verses (divided into syllables, but not according to the formal division but rather to the rhythmic one, between four and twelve syllables in general), and the way they rhyme (graphed with vowels according to rhyme).
For example, AABB (if the first two verses and the second two rhyme with each other), ABAB, ABBA or AABCCB, among many other possible combinations.
It can serve you:
- Poems by Federico García Lorca
- Rhymes by Adolfo Bécquer
- Poems of Romanticism
