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A feminine rhyme is a rhyme
Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry and songs. The word "rhyme" may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes....
 that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines. Often the final syllable is unstressed.

nine rhyme is relatively rare in English poetry and usually appears as a special effect. However, the Hudibrastic
Hudibrastic

Hudibrastic is a type of English language poetry named for Samuel Butler Hudibras of 1672. For the poem, Butler invented a mock-heroic verse structure....
 relies upon feminine rhyme for its comedy, and limericks
Limerick (poetry)

A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent....
 will often employ outlandish feminine rhymes for their humor.






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A feminine rhyme is a rhyme
Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry and songs. The word "rhyme" may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes....
 that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines. Often the final syllable is unstressed.

Feminine rhyme in poetry


English

Feminine rhyme is relatively rare in English poetry and usually appears as a special effect. However, the Hudibrastic
Hudibrastic

Hudibrastic is a type of English language poetry named for Samuel Butler Hudibras of 1672. For the poem, Butler invented a mock-heroic verse structure....
 relies upon feminine rhyme for its comedy, and limericks
Limerick (poetry)

A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent....
 will often employ outlandish feminine rhymes for their humor. Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 satirist Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satire, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin....
 wrote most of his poetry using feminine rhyme.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's Sonnet number 20
Shakespeare's sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and death....
, uniquely among the sonnets, makes use exclusively of feminine rhymes:

J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
 makes the use of internal and external triple syllable rhymes in some of the poems and song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
s contained within his epic novel The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an Epic poetry high fantasy novel written by Philology J.R.R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work....
:

French

In French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 verse, a feminine rhyme is one in which the final syllable is a "silent" e, even if the word is masculine. In classical French poetry, two feminine rhymes cannot occur in succession.

Feminine rhyme in music


Hip hop

In hip hop music
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
, especially since the 1990s, the use of feminine rhyme in rapping
Rapping

Rapping is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry. Rapping is a primary ingredient in Hip Hop music, but the phenomenon predates Hip Hop culture by centuries....
 (often referred to by the colloquial terms "multis" or "multirhymes" — a contraction
Contraction (grammar)

In current English usage, contraction is shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of internal letters.In traditional grammar, contraction can denote the formation of a new word from one word or a group of words, for example, by elision....
 of "multisyllabic rhymes
Multisyllabic rhymes

In rapping, multisyllabic rhymes contain two or more syllables. Rappers such as Black Thought and Eminem employ this technique, which is known colloquially as "multies"....
") is considered a sign of technical skill, and rap artists (such as Canibus
Canibus

Germaine Williams, better known by his stage name Canibus, is an United States rapper. He is a part of Supergroup The HRSMN along with: Killah Priest, Ras Kass, and Kurupt....
, Big Pun
Big Pun

Christopher Rios , better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a Puerto Ricans in the United States-United States rapping who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s....
, Big Daddy Kane
Big Daddy Kane

Antonio Hardy , better known by his stage name, Big Daddy Kane, is an African-American rapper. He started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group, the Juice Crew....
, Rakim
Rakim

Rakim is an American rapping and pioneer of the musical genre of hip hop, known as one half of the duo Eric B. & Rakim....
, Big L
Big L

*For Big L, , , American hip-hop artistOr a number of British radio stations:*Wonderful Radio London, the British offshore radio station .*Big L 1395, a British radio station....
, Kool G Rap
Kool G Rap

Nathaniel Wilson , better known by his stage name Kool G Rap, is an United States hardcore rapper from the Corona, Queens section of Queens, New York....
, Apathy
Apathy

Apathy is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest or concern to emotional, social, or physical life....
, Pharoahe Monch
Pharoahe Monch

Troy Donald Jamerson, better known as Pharoahe Monch, is an American rapper. He is known for his complex delivery, internal and Feminine rhyme rhyme schemes....
, Nas
Nas

Nasir Jones, , , better known by his stage name Nas, , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapping and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge, Queens housing projects in New York City....
, and Redman
Redman

Reginald "Reggie" Noble , better known by his stage name Redman, is an United States rapping and actor. He came to fame in the early 1990s as an artist on the Def Jam label....
 have been known to string together large sequences of complex rhyme patterns.

Eminem
Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III , known by his primary stage name Eminem, or by his alter-ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor....
 made extensive use of the technique in his early work, for example, It's OK; (rhymes are marked in bold for clarity):

See also

  • Masculine rhyme
    Masculine rhyme

    A masculine rhyme, in English-language prosody, is a rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry. This term is interchangeable with single rhyme, and is often used contrastingly with the terms "feminine rhyme" and "double rhyme."...