In southern and eastern Europe, and in countries that derive their tradition from them, ballad structure differs significantly, like Spanish romanceros, which are octosyllabic and use consonance rather than rhyme.

More important is the musical effect in which a smooth, rather swift forward movement is emphasized by the relation of grammatical structure to line and rhyme, yet is impeded and thrown back upon itself even from the beginning ".

Among the most common forms of poetry through the ages is the sonnet, which by the 13th century was a poem of fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure.

The regular use of tail rhyme helps to mark off the ends of lines, thus clarifying the metrical structure for the listener.

By the thirteenth century, it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.

Stanzas can be given a specific name depending on their structure and rhyme pattern.

This is most obvious in the adoption of the strophic form of the canzone, at its most basic a seven-line strophe with the rhyme scheme ab | ab | cxc, and a musical AAB structure, but capable of many variations.

With one notable exception ( Rhyming Poem ), Anglo-Saxon poetry depends on alliterative verse for its structure and any rhyme included is merely ornamental.

Jintishi ( meaning " new style poetry "), or regulated verse, is a stricter form developed in the early Tang Dynasty with rules governing the structure of a poem, in terms of line-length, number of lines, tonal patterns within the lines, the use of rhyme, and a certain level of mandatory parallelism.

Rore carefully brought out the varying moods of the texts he set, developing musical devices for this purpose ; additionally he often ignored the structure of the line, line division, and rhyme, deeming it unnecessary that the musical and poetic lines correspond.

Rather than relying on end rhymes, rap ’ s rhyme schemes can have rhymes placed anywhere in the bars of music to create a structure.

Rap verses can also employ ' extra rhymes ', which do not structure the verse like the main rhyme schemes, but which add to the overall sound of the verse.

# Other structure: Further rules may be imposed, such as additional word-boundary constraints on certain syllabic positions, or allowances for extrametrical syllables ; and further interlinear structure may be present ( such as rhyme and stanza ).

The shoe structure is inspired by the nursery rhyme " There was an old woman.

) Joiks do not rhyme, and have no definite structure.

The discussion was based on intensive readings and included considerations of a poem ’ s form, structure, meter, rhyme scheme, and imagery ( Singh 1991 ).

This additive method is the musical analogue of repeated stanzas in poetry or lyrics and, in fact, where the text repeats the same rhyme scheme from one stanza to the next the song's structure also often uses either the same or very similar material from one stanza to the next.

Both quatrains are based on a poetic form that was popular in England and the United States during the 18th-to-mid-20th centuries, in which a person stated their name, country, city or town, and a religious homily ( often, " Heaven's my destination ") within the rhyming four-line structure ( see book rhyme ).

The nursery rhyme " Billy Boy " borrows the verse structure and the narrative format about a suitor visiting his lover, with a happier ending.

* The name and structure of Ian McDonald's science fiction novella " The Days of Solomon Gursky " ( Asimov's Science Fiction June 1998, reprinted in Mike Ashley's 2006 anthology The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction ) is based on the nursery rhyme.

Instead he wanted to follow the example of the translators mentioned above to retain a greater fidelity and to try to preserve structure such as rhyme.

The Tabulatur dealt with three matters: ( 1 ) The kinds of poems and the parts of a meistergesang ; ( 2 ) permissible rhymes ; ( 3 ) the mistakes, which are the main business, and have to do ( a ) with errors of delivery, of melody, of structure and of opinion ; ( b ) chiefly, however, with errors of rhyme or mangling of words or cacophony.

But there is every reason to regard deal as a monosyllable, and because of the fact that /l/ commonly has the quality of AAb/ when it follows vowel sounds, deal seems to be a perfectly satisfactory rhyme with deal.

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

It is based on of long kacida ( poems ) single rhyme and the monotonous sound of the flute.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Generally the absent zee-rhyme is not missed, although some children use a zee pronunciation in the rhyme which they would not use elsewhere.

Anglo-Saxon poets typically used alliterative verse, a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme, a tool which is used rather infrequently.

This aspect of bean digestion is the basis for the children's rhyme " Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit ".

The player who is selected at the conclusion of the rhyme is " it " or " out ".

In some examples the meaning is further obscured by adding a second iteration of rhyme and truncation to the original rhymed phrase.

One example is " berk ", a mild pejorative widely used across the UK and not usually considered particularly offensive, although the origin lies in a contraction of " Berkeley Hunt ", as the rhyme for the significantly more offensive " cunt ".

In the 2001 feature film Ocean's Eleven Don Cheadle uses the term " barney " and the claim is made that this rhyme is derived from Barney Rubble, (" trouble ") with references to a character from the Flintstones cartoon show.

The term " Charing Cross " for example ( a place in London ) has been used to mean " horse " since the mid-19th century but does not rhyme unless " cross " is pronounced to rhyme with " course ".

In Australian slang the term for an English person is " pommy ", which has been proposed as a rhyme on " pomegranate " rhyming with " immigrant ".

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Free verse is a form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.

Poetry is esteemed, including extemporaneous rhyme competitions on given topics.

Its rhyme scheme found in the first seven lines is repeated in the first seven lines of the second stanza.

The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line --- that is to say a 7-7-7-7 Syllabic verse, with an AABB rhyme scheme as in this example:

The modern Tanaga still uses the 7777 syllable count, but rhymes range from dual rhyme forms: AABB, ABAB, ABBA ; to freestyle forms such as AAAB, BAAA, or ABCD.

The basic form is a simple four-line verse making use of an ABAB, ABCB, or AABB rhyme scheme.