feminine rhyme

Feminine rhyme is relatively rare in English poetry and usually appears as a special effect.

In classical French poetry, two feminine rhymes cannot occur in succession.

It was a principle of stanza-formation that masculine and feminine rhymes had to alternate in the stanza.

Feminine rhymes are as frequent as masculine ones.

Irish satirist Jonathan Swift used many feminine rhymes in his poetry.

William Shakespeare's Sonnet number 20 makes use of feminine rhymes:

The Shakespeare sonnets take an alternating rhyme form with feminine rhyme being rare.

Traditionally, English trochaic meter permits the final weak position in the line to be omitted, which allows both masculine and feminine rhymes.

Feminine rhymes are "scarce, insipid, or burlesque"

Sonnet 42 uses feminine rhymes at the end of the lines: especially in the second quatrain as a poetic device, similar to sonnet 40.

The unstressed syllable is a feminine rhyme, yet the addition of the syllable to the traditional form may also represent a phallus.

Hudibras was written in an iambic tetrameter in closed couplets, with surprising feminine rhymes.

In French verse, a feminine rhyme is one in which the final syllable is a "silent" e, even if the word is masculine.

Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven employs multiple feminine rhymes as internal rhymes throughout.

The lines throughout the song end in feminine rhymes mostly using the "long i" sound /aɪ/, echoing the stress pattern and vowel sound of the name Maria.

This term is interchangeable with single rhyme, and is often used contrastingly with the terms "feminine rhyme" and "double rhyme."

The Hudibrastic is poetry in closed rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter, where the rhymes are often feminine rhymes or unexpected conjunctions.

However, the Hudibrastic relies upon feminine rhyme for its comedy, and limericks will often employ outlandish feminine rhymes for their humor.

A feminine rhyme is a rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines, in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed.

Rhyming words ending with this silent "e" were said to make up a "feminine rhyme", while words not ending with this silent "e" made up a "masculine rhyme".

It uses an eight line stanza with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCD and regularly uses feminine rhyme for the A and C rhymes, often rhyming the name 'Dolores'.

Almost the entire work is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme "AbAbCCddEffEgg", where the uppercase letters represent feminine rhymes while the lowercase letters represent masculine rhymes.

With only a rare exception, the meter is iambic pentameter, although there is some accepted metrical flexibility (e.g., lines ending with an extra-syllable feminine rhyme, or a trochaic foot rather than an iamb, particularly at the beginning of a line).