A course of modern english lexicology

1) full rhyme
– the stressed vowels and consonants of the rhyming words are the same;
2) imperfect, or incomplete, rhyme can be subdivided into:
• vowel rhyme
– when the stressed vowels coincide, and the consonants do not;
• consonant rhyme
– when the stressed vowels do not coincide, but the consonants are the same;
3) eye-rhyme
– the similarity of spelling of the stressed syllables and difference in pronunciation.

Rhyme full rhyme: duty – beauty; wonder – thunder vowel rhyme: flesh – fresh – press consonant rhyme: worth – forth; fur – four; turn – torn – tone eye-rhyme: love – prove; brood – flood

2. TYPES OF RHYME

A perfect rhyme – also called a full rhyme, exact rhyme, or – rhyme – is when the final part of the word or phrase sounds identically to another word.
Perfect rhymes can be classified according to the number of syllables included in the rhyme.
According to the structure of rhyme we can distinguish three different types:
1) Masculine rhyme
– the last stressed syllables are rhymed together;
2) Feminine rhyme
– the last two syllables are rhymed together, the 1^st syllables are stressed;
3) Dactylic rhyme
– the last 3 syllables are rhymed together, the 1^st syllables are stressed.

Perfect rhyme masculine rhyme: dreams – streams; obey – away; understand – hand feminine rhyme: duty – beauty, berry – merry, delightful – frightful dactylic rhyme: regretfully – forgetfully, tenderly – slenderly

Masculine and feminine rhymes are typical of the English poetry.
As a rule it is single words that make a rhyme. These rhymes are simple.
Sometimes, however, a word rhymes with a word-group. These rhymes are compound.