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__**"The Unrhymable Word: Orange"**__

//The four eng-// //ineers// //Wore orange// //brassieres.//

- Willard Espy, poet



__rhyme__- correspondence in terminal sounds of units of composition or utterance; the repetition of similar sounds in the ends of two or more words

//**For example:**// //Twinkle, twinkle little **star**, How I wonder what you **are**.//

Here, the words at the end of each line,"star" and "are", rhyme.


 * Rhyme** can be found in prose, poetry, and song lyrics. However, rhyme can also be divided into various subcategories: internal rhyme, external rhyme, exact rhyme, slant rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, etc.

MASCULINE RHYME
A __masculine rhyme__ refers specifically to a rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry. (i.e. bat and cat) They are the most commonly used type of rhyme in English poetry.

Masculine rhymes can be seen in the first stanza of Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb":


 * //__A__//** Side by side, their faces **blurred**,
 * //__B__//** The earl and countess lie in **stone**,
 * //__B__//** Their proper habits vaguely **shown**
 * //__C__//** As jointed armour, stiffened **pleat**,
 * //__A__//** And that faint hint of the **absurd** —
 * //__C__//** The little dogs under their **feet**.

(The rhyme scheme is shown in the left column.)

Masculine rhymes are formed by: blurred and absurd, stone and shown, and pleat and feet. All of these words end in similar-sounding stressed syllables at the end of a line.

Also, the last stanza of Larkin's "Love Songs in Age" makes exclusive use of masculine rhymes:

__//**D**//__ It had not done so then, and could not **now**.
 * //__A__//** The glare of that much-mentionned brilliance, **love**,
 * //__B__//** Broke out, to **show**
 * //__A__//** Its bright incipience sailing **above**,
 * //__C__//** Still promising to solve, and **satisfy**,
 * //__B__//** And set unchangeably in order. **So**
 * //__C__//** To pile them back, to **cry**,
 * //__D__//** Was hard, without lamely admitting **how**

FEMININE RHYME
In contrast, a __feminine rhyme__ refers to a rhyme on two syllables, where the first syllable is stressed and the single is unstressed. (i.e. pleasure/treasure) In poetry, they are common in the heroic couplet. However, they are rarer than masculine rhymes and most often seen in humorous verse (like limericks).

Feminine rhymes can be seen in the first stanza of Larkin's "Love Songs in Age":


 * //__A__//** She kept her songs, they kept so little space,
 * //__B1__//** The covers **pleased her**:
 * //__A__//** One bleached from lying in a sunny place,
 * //__B2__//** One marked in circles by a vase of **water**,
 * //__B1__//** One mended, when a tidy fit had **seized her**,
 * //__B2__//** And coloured, by her **daughter** -
 * //__D__//** So they had waited, till, in widowhood
 * //__D__//** She found them, looking for something else, and stood

Here, feminine rhymes are formed by both //pleased her/seized her// and //water/daughter//, which are disyllabic (double) rhymes that end in unstressed syllables.