Treasured tropes of verse are here,
and each new type supported
by choice examples from the past,
with every entry sorted.
With rhymes that are purple,
And structures that lurk, all
hidden in overlong stanzas;
When it's prose versus verses
Then follow the hearses.
For now, you're no longer in Kansas.
Perhaps you Marvell what's been Donne!
Perhaps Lewis Carroll-ing in the aisles.
Read Joyce! Speak Swift! The language Burns,
The Poe-faced and the Auden-ry.
New Frost. Old Hughes! The mind discerns
examples that had ought-to-be.
Tropes:
- Accidental Rhyme: A phrase rhymes unintentionally.
- Bilingual Rhyme: A poem or song in two or more languages, where one word is rhymed with a foreign word.
- Ironic Nursery Rhyme: A nursery rhyme Played for Horror, with disturbing and/or innapropriate lyrics.
- Lame Rhyme Dodge: Avoiding getting in trouble for saying something by claiming to have said something that rhymes with, or at least sounds similar to, what you really said.
- Least Rhymable Word: Someone struggles trying to find a rhyme for a word that has little or no rhyming words.
- Limerick: A five-line (often humorous) poem in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other, as do the third and fourth lines.
- Midword Rhyme: A rhyme is made in the middle of another word.
- Nursery Rhyme: Poems/songs originating from around the 18th century, primarily written for children.
- Painful Rhyme: A rhyme that sounds forced.
- Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: Prophecies and legends have the tendency to double as poems.
- Rhyme Theme Naming: Members of the same group are given rhyming names.
- Rhymes on a Dime: A character constantly speaks in rhyme.
- Rhyming Episode: An installment of a series that has all the characters speaking in verse, for whatever reason.
- Rhyming Names: A character whose name follows a rhyme scheme.
- Rhyming List: A list of things that rhyme, while also still being related to one another.
- Rhyming Title: The title of a work contains a rhyme.
- Rhyming with Itself: A word is lazily rhymed with itself.
- Rhyming Wizardry: Magic is done by lyrical spells that rhyme.
- Stock Rhymes: A rhyme that is commonly used more than any other.
- Sublime Rhyme (rhyming trope names)
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: A poem or song avoids completing a rhyme where the word clearly expected is an obscenity.
