Editing Internal rhyme (section)

===Poetry===
In the following [[Limerick (poetry)|limerick]], each stressed syllable rhymes with another stressed syllable using one of three rhyme sets. Each rhyme set is indicated by a different highlight color. Note that the yellow rhyme set provides internal rhyme in lines 1, 2, and 5, and end rhymes in lines 3 and 4, but the blue set is entirely internal, and the pink is exclusively end rhymes.

<blockquote><poem>
Each time {{highlight |Ros}}alie {{highlight |goes}} for a {{highlight |walk | pink}}
She well {{highlight |knows}} that her {{highlight |clothes}} are the {{highlight |talk| pink }}
Of the {{highlight |town| lightblue }}, and it {{highlight |shows}},
But this {{highlight |gown| lightblue }} will ex{{highlight |pose}}
More than {{highlight |toes}}, so some {{highlight |shmoes}} gape and {{highlight |gawk| pink }}.
</poem></blockquote>
[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s poem "[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]" is filled with lines that include internal rhyme, such as "The guests are '''met''', the feast is '''set'''"; "The ship was '''cheered''', the harbour '''cleared'''"; and "It cracked and '''growled''', and roared and '''howled'''".<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Poetry Foundation|The Poetry Foundation]] |title=The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834}}</ref> Internal rhymes were a trademark of 19th century English poet [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]], for instance, in "God's Grandeur":
<blockquote><poem>Why do '''men''' '''then''' now not reck his rod?
Generations have '''trod''', have trod, have trod;
    And all is '''seared''' with trade; '''bleared''', '''smeared''' with toil;
    And '''wears''' man's smudge and '''shares''' man's smell: the soil
Is '''bare''' now, nor can foot feel, being shod.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Poetry Foundation|The Poetry Foundation]] |title=God's Grandeur |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur}}</ref>
</poem></blockquote>

[[Percy Dearmer]] (1867–1936) revised [[John Bunyan]]'s (1628–1688) poem "[[To Be a Pilgrim]]" in 1906. It became a popular hymn when Charles Winfred Douglas (1867–1944) set it to music in 1917. Here are Dearmer's lyrics, with the internal rhymes in bold. Note that in the three [[quatrains]], the internal rhymes are also echoed in the line rhymes (also in bold).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/w/hwhowvbe.htm |archive-date=3 March 2001 |title=He Who Would Valiant Be |website=cyberhymnal.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010303113522/http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/w/hwhowvbe.htm}}</ref>
<blockquote><poem>He who would '''valiant be''' 'gainst all disaster,
Let him in '''constancy''' follow the Master.
There’s no '''discouragement''' shall make him once '''relent'''
His first avowed '''intent''' to be a pilgrim.

Who so beset him '''round''' with dismal stories
Do but themselves '''confound'''—his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his '''might'''; though he with giants '''fight''',
He will make good his '''right''' to be a pilgrim.

Since, Lord, Thou dost '''defend''' us with Thy Spirit,
We know we at the '''end''', shall life inherit.
Then fancies flee '''away'''! I’ll fear not what men '''say''',
I’ll labor night and '''day''' to be a pilgrim.
</poem></blockquote>