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Hidden rhyme

Rhyme
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A rhyme concealed within a line or phrase rather than placed in obvious positions

Detailed Definition
Hidden rhyme occurs when rhyming words are embedded within lines rather than appearing at line endings, or when near-rhymes are obscured by enjambment or syntax; this subtle technique creates sonic cohesion without obvious patterning, allowing poets to maintain musicality while avoiding sing-song effects, common in free verse that values organic flow over formal regularity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hidden rhyme appears in Emily Dickinson’s slant rhymes: “room / storm”; In W.B. Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium”: “artifice / gyre”; In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”: “June / soon”; In contemporary poet Kay Ryan: “shark / work”; In Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel”: “cry / eye”.
Additional Notes
A rhyme scheme where the rhyming words are not at the end of lines but concealed within the line itself (internal rhyme); or a rhyme that is only apparent upon close reading or through a subtle half-rhyme; requires attentive listening.
Also Known As
concealed rhyme secret rhyme hidden correspondence cryptic rhyme Camouflaged rhyme Hermetic rhyme veiled rhyme
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