What is a consonant rhyme

Rhyme is the repetition of one or more sounds at the end of the syllable of each of the verses of a poetic composition. Depending on whether the phonetic similarity corresponds only to vowel sounds or also to consonants, we will be dealing with one type of rhyme or another. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will focus our explanation on what is a consonant rhyme, with several examples so you can understand it better.

If you want to know what the consonant rhyme is, we will go to Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (DRAE) in which it says that the consonant rhyme is one "that shares in the same order the vowel and consonant sounds from the last stressed vowel". That is, compared to the assonance rhyme, in which only the vowel character sounds rhyme, in consonant rhyme we find both vowel and consonant coincidence.

Likewise, the consonant rhyme also receives the name of perfect rhymesince in it all the sounds that make up the last syllable of each verse rhyme. In this way, the consonant rhyme f

facilitated memorization and repetition of the lyrical compositions, since we only have to look at the sounds of the last syllables of the poems and make them coincide, which, in addition to facilitating the transmission of the message, also embellished it when reciting it in voice high.

We must not forget that rhyme is a lyrical question that always develops on the acoustic and phonic plane; that is, in the oral performance of the language.

Now that we know what a consonant rhyme is, let's discover you Some examples taken from various poetic compositions in which we see how the consonant rhyme works:

What happy and fresh the morning! / The air grabs my nose, / dogs bark, a boy yells / and a pretty fat girl / on a stone, grind corn.

In this poem by Rubén Darío we see thea rhyme consonant "-ita" in "mañanita", "scream" and "bonita" and "iz" in "nose" and "corn". Another example is the following text by Amado Nervo, where we observe the rhyme "-ino" in "path" and "destination" and "-osas" in "things" and "tasty":

Cause I see at the end of my rough road / that I was the architect of my own destiny; / that if I extracted the honeys or the gall of things,/ It was because in it I put gall and tasty honeys.

We also have another example taken from a poem by Miguel Hernández, in which the consonant rhyme ends in "-ero" in words like "January" and "goatherd", and in "-ía" in terms like "put" and "cold":

Every fifth of January,/ every January it put / my goat shoes / to the cold window ...

And, finally, we find the following text extracted from a fable by Félix María Samaniego, in which we observe consonant rhymes such as "honey", "he" and "cake", as well as "came", "died" or "candy" with "examine" and "dominates", at the same time as "hearts" with "prisons":

To a honeycomb of rich honey /two thousand flies came / who died for their sweet tooth / prey legs on it. / Another fly on a cake / buried the treat from him. / Thus, although it is examined, / human hearts perish in prisons / of the vice that dominates them.