euphony: sounds combined to flow smoothly
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A state of being, a state of grace
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Where the mind is quiet, the body rests pliant
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And the heart shines through the face
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cacophony: sounds combined to dramatically clash
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Infinite dream splits the night
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Ten thousand flashing shards of light
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alliteration: repetition of identical consonant sounds
- Paradise Lost in the storm of free will
assonance: repetition of identical vowel sounds
- Infinite dream splits the night
consonance: alliteration times two; repetition of two or more consonant sounds in words with different vowels sounds
- Wrapped around the Tree of Knowledge
onomatopoeia: words that sound like what they are describing
- There is no beginning as this "Big Bang"
true rhyme: repetition of identical vowel and consonant sounds with the rhyme appearing in the stressed syllable in polysyllabic words
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Far beneath heaven's dome
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Lies a quiet place free of thought
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Where sometimes we go home
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slant rhyme: (near rhyme and off rhyme) rhyming sounds that are similar, but not identical. Alliteration, assonance and consonance are used to create similar sounds
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Physics belies faith
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There is no knowing - no slide rule to calculate
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This amorphous dimension
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Religion belies reason
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There is no faith - no dogma to fathom
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This glorious heaven
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apocopated rhyme: slant rhyme that uses true rhyme sounds with the rhyme falling on a stressed syllable in one word and and unstressed syllable in another
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Let my heart be still a moment
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and this mystery explore
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Eternity in an hour
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The wonder of something more
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masculine rhyme: single syllable rhyming words and stressed last rhyming syllables in polysyllabic words
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A distant past set stars adrift
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It all expands in Hubble's "Red Shift"
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feminine rhyme: unstressed rhyming syllables in polysyllabic words
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Then what's all the noise? speaks the next revelation
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Penzia and Wilson's "background radiation"
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end rhyme: rhyming sounds appearing at the end of two or more lines
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A lover's embrace when passion is sated
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The full belly that hungers no more
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Or a mourner's memory when grief
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has abated
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internal rhyme: rhyming words that appear in the middle of one or more lines, which can also be matched with an end rhyme, but do not have to be
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In the beginning there was the word?
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Then more words to come
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Equally absurd as here upon this page
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