Young Writers Society

Now, I know there are alot of tangents the title could take, but my specific question is: how exact do endings have to be to rhyme? For example , would the following work rhyming-wise?

I want to give her a rose
Before the show will have closed

So "rose" and "close" rhyme, but if I add a D to "close" will it still rhyme? Do the rhymes have to be exactly the same sound endings, or can I modify them like this?

In my opinion, experience and from what I've seen. Rose and Closed would work. It's your poem, you do what you want to do. Yes you want it to sound good as well as look good. But it also depends on the rest of the poem. Could you PM or write the entire poem for me? I'm sure its great, just don't make the poem seem like you created the poem around words that rhyme.

The above wasn't an actual poem, that was just writing to the rhyme to give an example. And yes, for the example, I did create the lines around the rhyme.

Sure! It's a near rhyme, so you'll not find too many problems with it. It might even make a poem not sound too forced.

Kk but in a nutshell. Writing a poem around words that rhyme makes everything seem forced and so-so. What I mean by so-so is, you want your poem to be great, not just good enough.

I forget all the definitions for type of rhymes...

There are some exact rhymes, and then there are rhymes that sound the same, but really aren't the same. Rose and Closed works, as far as I can tell. Sometimes, though, I've found it's difficult to end lines in verbs because of tense, and then the next line usually has to be a verb, in that tense, or it sounds strange.

EX: walk/talked. Doesn't work, does it?

Yeah, it's called slant rhyme, and it is a gift from the heavens.

There are very different ways you can rhyme, there is internal rhyme, which is where there is rhyme within the lines and not at the end.

Types of Rhyme

* Perfect Rhyme: The words are in complete aural correspondence. An example would be: Certain and Curtain.
* Forced Rhyme: An unnatural rhyme that forces a rhyme where it should not otherwise be.
* Slant Rhyme: The words are similar but lack perfect correspondence. Example: found and kind, grime and game.
* Masculine Rhyme: Has a single stressed syllable rhyme. Example: fight and tight, stove and trove.
* Feminine Rhyme: A stressed syllable rhyme followed by an unstressed syllable. Example: carrot and garret, sever and never.
* Visual Rhyme: A rhyme that only looks similar, but when spoken sound different. Example: slaughter and laughter. This type of rhyme can be used more to make a visual pattern than to make a aural rhyme.

I've used a lot of rhymes... I try to be pretty close most of the time, but I think that it'll always sound fine if you add an s to it. ("Walk/talks") Also, I use things like "Walk/talked" or similar. I think that as long as it's pretty close, it should work okay. I'm definitely not perfect though, because often my rhymes are forced or they're too far apart. (Like heavily/angry in my last poem...)

One example of a non-perfect rhyme is from my poem "Hell's Battlefield" (topic25620.html that's for if you want to see all my forced rhymes...). It's "Pain/change". I also use "again/Grim", which is quite imperfect.

So yeah, I am definitely not the best example for this.

Hope this helped somewhat!

Teh Wozzinator