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Not many people key into the essence of rhyming in modern day poetry and by doing this, a core ingredient of poetry writing is basically missing. I myself started out as a basic rhymer but over time I learnt to sift rhyme from rhythms, STANZAIC expressions of literary devices and also how to enjoin figurative expressions into my pieces and this is what makes a rapper different from a poetic writer.
There is an essence to rhyming of course it's an art, there is a way it's fully utilized it become not just rhyme, but an powerful tool for a poet who knows how to fully utilize rhymes.
Rhymes can either come with a ryhme scheme or go with rhythm. I use to only rhyme at the end of a line in a poetic piece but I found out it only made my poetic pieces mundane and banal, so I started cultivating the art of rhyming within a verse and when I fully put this into effect, it brought out a musical pattern that can only be felt or heard when you read the words slowly in the phonetics forms like (frugal when spoken in it's phonetic from; ˈfruːɡ(ə)l/)
I realised then that there were different types of rhymes and this help me in discovering my favourite type of ryhme whenever I decide to do a ballad or a dirge/elegy.
Internal Rhymes
This is basically rhyming within a verse in a poetic work of art, this is fully accomplished when you rhyme within your verse rather than rhyming in the end word of each feet in a verse or stanza and the only effect of this rhyme can felt when pronounced rather seen. It's of course the most difficult type of rhyme because it's not for aesthetics purpose just like the other kind of rhymes but for a rather rhythm purpose.
For example below is a ballad (It's a ballad because of it's rhythmic pattern and the fact that it can be sung and it tells the story of a female country folk singer who lives in the mountains) in a piece of mine which i titled THE SONGSTRESS'S LULLABY
She trills like the tree skylark
Inducing hypnogogic rhythm
crooning like the mocking birds
a teetertotter of country singsongs
that mocks the parrots ding dongs
the soul is quavering the spirit congeals
a ferry into fairy tale
a humdrum smirks melodious drums
her voice somniferous into long dreams
yielding to her sweet sonorous yodeling
Here is another verse from a piece I titled ALTAR ALTERS THE FUTURE
Jejune sneering, snickering snickers
the future is encapsulated in a crystal
of those who dine with figurines
mixed concoction reeking like urine
the gurgling of their cooking cauldron
escaping east toward the naive skies
gibberish mutter, foul murmuring
upon a gory elevation a lamb is slain
darkened by the smouldering of the sun
Here the effect of internal rhyme is dimly felt although it's very difficult to deduce, because before it's deduced there must be abstract or total knowledge of consonant sounds, vowel sounds, phoneme and also iamb's stressed and unstressed syllables as well which is largely seen in sonnets.
It's also dimly felt because the internal rhyme is only present in a few feets in the verses but would've had full effect should it be present in the whole feet of the verse.
EYE RHYME
this kind of rhyme is for aesthetic purpose, it basically has little or no effect when it comes to pronunciations as well nevertheless the words between the words looks nearly the same for example rumble and fumble it has aesthetics effect because it's laced with nearly the same spellings and at the same time has a rhyming effect and it's often used in nursery rhyme pieces.
As a young poet I never used eyes rhymes because eye rhymes were not limitless in the sense that if you lace a poem with eye rhymes you may run out of words to continue your piece, unlike the other type of rhymes and that was why I stuck to End Rhymes and Internal Rhymes
RHYMING IN BALLAD & DIRGE/ELEGY
The similarities between a ballad and a dirge/elegy is that they can both be sung. That factor alone makes me feel it's essential to include internal rhymes because since it's felt from from the pronunciations and sound it produces musical effects that makes a ballad or a dirge very musical as well.
For example see; this line our song is our bound is a feet in a verse of a elegy/dirge why is this because of the musical effects it portrays if the verses are repeated out aloud.
Rhyming internally therefore becomes the best and the only way to ryhme in a ballad or dirge for a poet who knows their onus.
Mind you poetry can be vast and there's no one on earth that can master the whole style of writing because it's a creative process and not a definitive process, it's not a creation but a discovery.
Written By @Josediccus
24/9/2018
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