Form of rhyme involving matched consonants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pararhyme is a form of rhyme in which there is vowel variation within the same consonant pattern.
"Strange Meeting" (1918) is a poem by Wilfred Owen, a war poet who used pararhyme in his writing. Here is a part of the poem that shows pararhyme:
Pararhyme features in the Welsh cynghanedd poetic forms. The following short poem by Robert Graves is a demonstration in English of the cynghanedd groes form, in which each consonant sound before the caesura is repeated in the same order after the caesura (Graves notes that the ss of 'across' and the s of 'crows' match visually but are not the same sound):
James Joyce uses a pararhyme in Finnegans Wake (1939) when he says: "First we feel. Then we fall."
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