slant rhyme

Each poem ends with an internal full or slant rhyme.

Her formal poems tend to bend the "rules" of poetic forms and employ slant rhyme.

Many of the rhyme pairs use slant rhyme.

Consonance is an element of half-rhyme poetic format, sometimes called "slant rhyme."

(shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes referred to as slant rhymes, along with consonance.

"Ariel" is composed of ten three-line stanzas with an additional single line at the end, and follows an unusual slanted rhyme scheme.

Other features of vernacular poetry of this time include kennings, internal rhyme, and slant rhyme.

Its final line lies roughly coupled with the first line of the 3rd stanza (i.e. the slant rhyme between "enough" and "love").

Throughout, formal devices like syllabic meters, slant rhymes and a host of stanzaic structures are employed with unfussy facility.

There was one slant rhyme, and the meter wasn't exactly constant, but it worked-the air was suddenly filled with a thousand whirling clasp knives.

She had chosen the surname only because of its echoing proximity to the name Lewinsky, which slant rhyme seemed to promise all sorts of oral delights.

The second and fourth lines in each stanza rhyme, with the first rhyme pair "Pearl" and "Alcohol" being near or slant rhyme.

In later volumes, Francis found a voice distinctively his own, relaxed in meter and characterized by puns, word-plays, slant rhymes, and repetitions of key words.

I have broken the meter into odd phrases with the accents reversed; I have used slant rhymes, broken rhymes, and no rhymes-yet all to no avail!"

Jay-Z goes on a great riff about art, including the "put some colored girls in the MOMA" line and an excellent slant rhyme involving Larry Gagosian.

Line breaks may also serve to signal a change of movement or to suppress or highlight certain internal features of the poem, such as a rhyme or slant rhyme.

Or slant rhymes, echoes and approximations rather than the ding-ding-ding of perfect rhymes, which in the wrong hands can make a poem clank and bump like a pinball machine.

Torres's twitchy prose, in which the pummel of hard consonants and slant rhymes becomes a kind of incantation, elevates the collage of vignettes and its elusive characters.

His poetry is known for his difficult, sly, allusive style, casual use of obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant rhyme.

Writing about Felt in The New York Times Book Review, Megan Harlan also commented on how Fulton's poems are "aurally rich with slant rhymes and musical rhythms."

Delany has taken from Standhal's famous work the name Sanseverina (and "Oscar" is a slant rhyme for "Mosca") as well as the basic bildungsroman structure for his novella.

His structures are not those Johnson would recognize, of course: he seldom writes in straight iambic pentameter, often uses tricky syllabic stanzas, and favors slant rhymes deployed in elaborate rhyme schemes.

Other poems use sound as a mnemonic technique, as in the following poem which rhymes with the first 140 decimal places of pi using a blend of assonance, slant rhyme, and perfect rhyme: