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sounds that follow the stressed syllable). 
When I consider how my light is spent, 
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, 
And that one Talent which is death to hide 
Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more 
bent 
To serve therewith my Maker, and present 
My true account, lest he returning chide; 
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” 
I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent 
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need 
Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best 
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state 
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed 
And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest: 
They also serve who only stand and wait.” 
Poe's famous poem "The Raven" uses internal 
rhyme in addition to end rhyme—and also 
makes heavy use of alliteration [8, 2]. Examples 
of alliteration are bolded, while examples of 
internal rhyme are highlighted. In the first three 
lines of the poem, there are three examples: 
weak/weary, quaint/curious, and nodded/nearly 
napping. 
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, 
weak and weary, 
Over many a quaint and curious volume of 
forgotten lore— 
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there 
came a tapping, 
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my 
chamber door. 
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my 
chamber door— 
Only this and nothing more.” 
Eye rhymes (rhymes that sound different but use 
the same spelling) are far more common in 
English verse prior to the 19th century, when the 
convention fell out of favor with many writers. 
Also worth nothing is that many older examples 
of eye rhyme occur not because the author 
originally intended them but because the way 
that words are pronounced changes over time. 
All men make faults, and even I in this, 
Authorizing thy trespass with compare, 
Myself corrupting salving thy amiss, 
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are... 
This poem “Lines written in dejection” by W.B. 
Yeats gives an example of slant rhyme, since 
"moon" and "on" don't rhyme perfectly but end 
in the same consonant, while "bodies" and 
"ladies" don't use the same sounds in their 
stressed syllables, but end with identical 
unstressed syllables [11, 1]. Here are the first 
four lines of the poem: 
When have I last looked on 
The round green eyes and the long wavering 
bodies 
Of the dark leopards of the moon? 
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies 
Notice, too, the poet's use of alliteration in the 
phrase "wild witches." 
The excerpt from a poem “How soon hath Time, 
the subtle thief of youth” by John Milton is a good 
example of forced rhyme, since the poet had to 
alter the spelling of two different words in order 
to make them seem to rhyme with the word 
"youth." 
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, 
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! 
My hasting days fly on with full career, 

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CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2(10): 98-
103, October 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-10-19 
ISSN 2767-3758 
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