Poetry Terms: Rhyme ♥

DEFINITION
The identity in sound of words, especially at the end.

EXAMPLE

I can feel you all around
In the silence I hear the sound
Of your footsteps on the ground
And my heart slows down.
       (Invisible - Jonas Brothers)
 

SIGNIFICANCE

When people talk about poetry or poems, they think of rhymes. Therefore it's a major thing in poems. Even though it's not necessary be in a poem, it still makes the poem sound better. Once the poem sounds catchy, the reader would want to read more. Rhymes just make a poem sound more like...a poem.