Rhyme type
The kinds of rhyme a lyric uses, including the near ones a singer can get away with that a reader cannot.
Values Over Time
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All Values(10)
| # | Value | Songs | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perfect rhyme Endings sharing identical stressed-vowel-plus-consonant sounds (cat/hat). | 191 | 24.6% |
| 2 | Internal rhyme Rhyme between a word inside a line and its end-word, or between two interior words. | 131 | 16.9% |
| 3 | Identical rhyme Two lines ending on the very same word - minimal rhyme. | 123 | 15.9% |
| 4 | Extrametrical rhyme Rhyme between line-end and a word outside the line's basic meter. | 110 | 14.2% |
| 5 | Half rhyme Near-rhyme where consonants match but vowels differ slightly (some/home). | 101 | 13.0% |
| 6 | Feminine rhyme Rhyme on two or more syllables ending in an unstressed syllable (running/sunning). | 53 | 6.8% |
| 7 | Triple rhyme Rhyme on three or more syllables - strikingly intricate. | 39 | 5.0% |
| 8 | Multi-syllabic rhyme Rhyme spanning multiple stressed syllables across both line-ends. | 22 | 2.8% |
| 9 | Eye rhyme Words that look like they should rhyme but don't sound alike (love/move). | 4 | 0.5% |
| 10 | Mosaic rhyme Rhyme between a single word and a multi-word phrase (jumble/come tumble). | 2 | 0.3% |