The rhyme is the resemblance or acoustic similarity between two or more words with each other, this is achieved at the end of each verse and several verses make up a stanza, this assonance is appreciated more than anything in poems and songs. When reading a text carefully, you appreciate the effect that each verse has, generating a rhythm that is pleasant both for the one who listens to it and for the one who recites it. For a writer to achieve this effect, he places the letters (a and b) in each line at the end of each of the verses, provided that the last syllables written are similar or similar to achieve a better intonation in the voice.
Its word originates from the Latin rhythmus, which means movement that is carried out in a space of time that measures and regulates the expression to give the verse more notoriety. His literary precursor was the Spanish Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastidas, best known for his literary works (Rhymes and legends: The caudillo of the red hands, The letters from my cell, The mount of the souls, The miserere, Maese Pérez the organist, The moonbeam, etc.) for the 19th century between the years 1836-1870 is called Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and today his rhymes are still making history.
Different characteristics and types of Rhyme.
- His poems are short and use assonant and consonant type verses.
- The verses that are in the songs and the poems form stanzas.
- His poems show a very high degree of emotion and intimacy.
- The verses that appear in one line are named as major art verses and minor art verses.
- They are conditioned to the metric.
- He is not pompous, he only seeks the perfect simplicity in his stews.
- Rhymes can be written in poems, songs, paya, stories, etc.
The rhymes can be given in different ways, although they depend on certain basic conditions such as the ones that we will name here:
According to the calculations presented:
- Perfect or consonant, in courtly and refined times this rhyme was widely used because at that time there were few possibilities of combining words. In order for there to be a sound connection between two words that are located at the end of each verse, it is necessary to use the tonic syllable that is located at the end of each word so that the phonemes can coincide.
Here I show you some quotes as examples reviewed by two famous literary writers:
Author Jorge Guillen: “It smells like a real world / the blue rosemary flower.”
Author Ramón de Campoamor: “The heart of man is mysterious / like a sepulchral slab without a name”.
- Imperfect or assonance, it is the most common in popular or traditional lyric, since if there is freedom to combine several words, it gives poems a certain beauty and musicality because it combines well the vowels that are stressed at the end of the word of each tonic syllable, coinciding with the last word written in two lines or more that are in a poem. If in a stanza they are achieved with esdrújula words, the accented vowel and the last syllable of the word are taken into account. And if there is a diphthong, the vowel that is stronger or more accented is taken into account. For example, in this quote I show you the best result:
Author Juan Ramón Jiménez: “Today I found myself withered/all the flowers in the garden/there is no perfume in the air/winter will soon come.”
Author Emilio Prados: “Bridge of my solitude/through the eyes of my death/your waters go towards the sea/to the sea from which it does not return”.
According to the use of accent:
- Oxitonous, the verses tend to end with words that are monosyllables or acute, here one more syllable tends to be added. Examples: coffee, accordion, expression, Jesus, etc.
- Paroxytone, here the words that have the accent on the penultimate syllable called llanas or graves, which is common in the Spanish language, are taken into consideration. In a stanza they try to match the last syllables. Example: football, tree, ball, etc.
- Proparoxytone, are called esdrújulas because they have their accent on the penultimate syllable, here there is one less syllable in the word that is in the verse. Example: page, antibiotic, sarcastic, classic, etc.
According to your disposition in:
- Continue, your phonemes must be exact since all the words that are in the poem must end with the same syllables. And thus maintain its surround sound.
- Twin or paired, its stanzas are made up of two verses repeating themselves in pairs. But it is also used in other stanzas as in verses seven and eight. Example: Author Antonio Machado: “Spring has come. Nobody knows how it was”.
- Embraced, this is used in quatrains, the exterior verses intertwine or enclose with the interiors of different rhymes. Example: Author Julián Del Cazar, Prometheus: “Under the canopy of gigantic rock / lies the Titan, which Christ on Calvary, / marble, indifferent and solitary, without the moan coming from his mouth.”
- Crossed or alternate, this case occurs in the servantes or hendecasyllable quatrain. Where the first verse intersects with the third and the second verse with the fourth.
- Braided, it is denoted in the chained tercets where the verses do not coincide.
- Internal, this occurs in different ways, either in the middle of the verse, in an echo, in a ladder, etc., as long as the rhyme is inside it.