Rhyme / Rime

Rhyme or also spelled rime, is defined by Britannica as “a literary technique of the correspondence of two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another. Rhyme/Rime is used by poets and occasionally by prose writers to produce sounds appealing to the reader’s senses and to unify and establish a poem’s stanzaic form”(“Rhyme”).

Emily Dickinson made the use of rhyme as a literary device enhances the meaning of the poem as a whole in her poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

“Originally titled "'Hope' is the thing with feathers - (314)"

Other example of rhyme or rime is ‘If We Must Die’ by Claude McKay

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die

And ‘Relativity’ is a contemporary poem that includes rhymes and it was wrote by Sarah Howe for Stephen Hawking.

https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/d078eb2d-ba94-4256-a6be-2f208c9867c0/relatividad

To get a better understanding of this term, I will add a link with a simple but effective definition of what a rhyme is and some extra information about it.

https://clpe.org.uk/poetry/poetic-devices/rhyme

SOURCES:

“Rhyme” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 2018

https://www.britannica.com/art/rhyme

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)

Die, Poetry Explication If We Must, and By Claude McKay. "If We Must Die."

-María José Cinta Velázquez