What is rhyme?

Do you know what is rhyme?

THE rime it is a language style feature widely used in texts of discursive genres structured in verse, like poems and songs. This feature is used in order to assign to texts more sonority, rhythm and musicality.

In general, the rime is made between a verse and another, designating the repetition ofphonemes (sounds) identical or similar, usually in the syllable Final of words. So when we think about what is rime, then we thought about the association between the phonemes of the words that can be considered as pairs in the texts.

read one stanza of poem “Sonnet”, by the poet modernistMario de Andrade, and watch the sound effects caused by rime:

Sonnet

All the best and greatestrim (rhyme A)

Live in your naked teenage bodybeing (rhyme B)

Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)

The leg thus played and the arm, the clrim (rhyme A)

gaze stuck in my lostloved. (rhyme B)

although the rhymes be one stylistic language resource most used in structured texts inverses

, there is poems and songs that don't have rhymes, characterizing what we call white verses or loose verses. See the example of a poem without rhymes by the poet modernistOswald de Andrade:

Portuguese error

when the portuguese arrived

under a brutal rain

dressed the indian

What a pity!

it was a sunny morning

The Indian had undressed

The Portuguese.

(ANDRADE Oswald de. Portuguese error. In: Poetry gathered. 5. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Civilization, 1978. P. 177.)

See also about the rhyme classification. Good reading!

By Ma. Luciana Kuchenbecker Araújo

Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:

ARAúJO, Luciana Kuchenbecker. "What is rhyme?"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/o-que-e/portugues/o-que-e-rima.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.

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