Editing Internal rhyme (section)

{{Short description|Rhyme whose time is not the end of a line}}
In [[poetry]], '''internal rhyme''', or '''middle rhyme''', is [[rhyme]] that occurs within a single line of [[verse (poetry)|verse]], or between internal phrases across multiple lines.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strachan |first1=John |last2=Terry |first2=Richard |year=2000 |title=Poetry |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |page=63 |isbn=978-0-7486-1045-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia | year = 2014 | title = Internal rhyme | encyclopedia = [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] | publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica | url = https://www.britannica.com/art/internal-rhyme }}</ref> By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme.

Internal [[rhyme scheme]]s can be denoted with spaces or commas between lines. For example, {{not a typo|"ac,ac,ac"}} denotes a three-line poem with the same internal rhyme on each line, and the same end rhyme on each line (which does not rhyme with the internal rhyme).