Internal Rhyme

In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse.

Internal rhyme occurs in the middle of a line, as in these lines from Coleridge, ''In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud'' or ''Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white'', or in ''Ah, distincly I remember, it was in the bleak December''.

More internal rhyme from "The Raven" by Edgar A. Poe is as follows:


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 —