Rhyme 즉 압운(押韻)은 시에서 시행의 일정한 자리에 발음이 비슷한 음절의 같은 운이 규칙적으로 들어가는 것을 뜻한다. 라임(영어: rhyme), 운어(韻語)라고도 부른다.
두운(頭韻)은 행의 처음에 들아가는 압운으로 머리운이라고도 부른다.
요운(腰韻)은 행의 가운데에 들아가는 압운으로 허리운이라고도 부른다.
각운(脚韻)은 행의 끝에 들아가는 압운으로 다리운이라고도 부른다.
What is Rhyme?
The rhyme definition is the repetition of the sounds at the end of a word. When two words rhyme, they usually share the same sounds from the last stressed syllable to the end of the word.
Cat and hat, rough and tough, dove and above, and alone and trombone are all pairs of rhyming words: they sound the same from the last stressed syllable to the end.
The word "rhyme" comes from the word rime or ryme in Middle English, meaning "rhythm" or "meter." Those Middle English words have their own origins in the Latin rithmus, usually used to describe poetic verse that rhymed as a memory aid, and the Greek rhythmos, meaning "flow," "arrangement," or "shape." Thus, the modern "rhyme" comes from words describing rhythm, flow, and verse.
A rhyme is the repetition of sounds between two words, usually the sounds after the final stressed syllable of each word.
Cat-hat, rotten-forgotten, and heard-bird are examples of rhyming pairs of words; their sounds match after the last stressed syllable.
Types of Rhymes in Poetry
Many different types of rhymes exist, all with differences in the repetitions of the sounds or the location of the rhyming words. These include:
Perfect rhyme
Imperfect rhyme
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Identical rhyme
Other types of rhymes exist as well, including eye rhyme (in which words such as rough and dough only appear to rhyme when reading but do not sound alike), feminine rhyme (which rhymes unstressed syllables) and masculine rhyme (the most common rhyme type in English, rhyming stressed syllables).
Perfect Rhymes
A perfect rhyme (also known as a "full," "exact," or "true" rhyme) is a pair of words that sound identical from the last stressed syllable to the end of the word. In the words "rotten" and "forgotten," the stressed syllable in "rotten" is the first syllable, "rot." The stressed syllable in "forgotten" is the second syllable, "got." These two words have the same sounds in their stressed syllables and in all following syllables: a short "o" vowel sound, a hard "t" sound, a short "e" sound, and an ending "n."
Perfect rhymes are not required to have the same spelling, only the same sound. "Grown" and "loan" are a perfect rhyme, even though they have different spellings.
Imperfect Rhymes
Imperfect rhyme, also known as "approximate," "slant," or "lazy" rhyme, uses words that sound almost alike. Approximate rhymes share many sounds but are not exactly the same. These rhymes might have different vowel sounds before a similar consonant sound, as in the case of "launch" and "branch." These words have different vowel sounds but end in the same "nch" sound, making it an imperfect rhyme.