Poetry Kaleidoscope: Guide to Poetry

Internal Rhyme

In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse.

Examples

the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother

-Dylan Thomas

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

-Edgar Allan Poe

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