verse that has a fixed number of syllables per line (though not always the same number of stressed syllables)

The use of alliteration at the beginning of stressed syllables

near rhyme / half rhyme

plural of end rhyme

A simple rhyme on single stressed syllables.

A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable.

A form of rhyme in which a rhyming word is omitted, and left to be "heard" only in the reader's mind.

plural of eye rhyme

plural of forced rhyme

rhyme in which the rhyming lines in each verse are followed by a shorter line; these shorter lines sometimes rhyme with each other