Internal Rhyme Examples

In poetry, when there is a rhyme created by a word at the end of a line and a word that occurs previously in the same line, it is called internal rhyme. Simply, this means that there is a rhyme in the line of poetry.

I could spend hours walking amid the flowers.

Oh, how I love to bake a scrumptious chocolate cake.

The sun through the branches dappled the ripe for harvest apples.

The story is very old, and many times has been told.

From Poe's "The Raven"

From Poe's "Annabelle Lee"

The moon never beams without bringing me dreams . . .

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes.

From Shakespeare's Macbeth

Double, double toil and trouble.

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

From Eminem (rapper):

He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out.

He's choking how, everybody's joking now.

The clock's run out, times up, over, plow.