Using the Rhyme handout as a guide, isolate examples of 3 different types of rhyme from today's readings (they can all be from the same poem or from multiple poems). Provide a quotation of the rhyming passages and label the type of rhyme. Also, choose one poem/song from today's readings that you believe uses rhyme particularly effectively. Explain what rhyme contributes to this poem/song and how rhyme might enhance the content. “The Raven” uses many internal rhymes, which are 2 words that rhyme within a line. The first line is “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”(Poe, 1) and later on he states “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing”(Poe, 25). “Very Like a Whale” explored several other types of rhymes, such as perfect rhymes, which are rhymes with both words sharing the same number of syllables and often the same spelling pattern. Some examples of this can be the end rhymes “longevity”(Nash, 13) and “brevity”(Nash, 14), “gold”(Nash, 16) and “fold”(Nash, 18), “most”(Nash, 28) and “host”(Nash, 30). There are several examples of perfect rhymes in this poem in the beginning but it includes more slant rhymes as it continues further. “Very Like a Whale” uses many slant rhymes in its poem, such as “experience”(Nash, 9) and “Assyrians”(Nash, 11), “storm”(Nash, 40) and “warm”(Nash, 43), and finishing with “dimly”(Nash, 44) and “simile”(Nash, 44). I am a huge Hamilton nerd but I have to choose “The Raven,” it has a very effective way of grasping the reader through its first internal rhyme, “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”(Poe, 1), and every paragraph has identical rhymes, which are rhymes using the same word twice, having a consistent rhyme and measure, engaging the reader. The most common identical rhymes are “door” and “Lenore,” which are rhymed twice nearly every time they are use as end rhymes for the first five paragraphs. Though the first line and third line often dont end rhyme, the second, third, fourth, and fifth all rhyme together, often using an “oor” sound. Every paragraph ends in some semblance of “more” or “Nevermore,” rhyming with the previous end rhymes, being a very consistent and engaging rhyme.

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