A pure rhyme is the exact harmony of rhymes. This means that the rhyme syllables are exactly the same according to the stressed vowel. In this case, very often the same letters are arranged in the same order. For example, the noun house forms a pure rhyme with mouse. After the accented a follow the same letters, namely, and so an identical sound arises. However, pure rhymes can also occur with different letters: thus the world forms and a pure rhyme, since the rhymes resemble sound (elt / alter).
In the middle-high German poetry, the term reims syllables, which sounded the same as the dialect of the respective speaker or reader. Today, however, the term mostly refers to a pronunciation in the standard language and therefore means the German standard language in Germany. The following is an example whose final rhymes are pure rhymes (see Reimschema).
There are two varieties of rats:
The hungry and rich.
The rich remain happy to the house,
The hungry but wander out.
The above example is the first strophe of poems The Wanderratten by Heinrich Heine, a German-French poet of Romanticism. Here, the first and second verses, as well as the third and fourth lines, are arranged on each other. The rhyme scheme is therefore aabb, which can be identified as a pair rhyme.
The individual rhyming rhymes are pure because their rhymes are the same. This is achieved in the example by the identical notation, which also produces the same sounds. Rats and fat are written identically to the accented vowel, the a. The same applies to the words house and out.
Pure and Unclean rhyme
The unclean rhymes form a contrast to the pure. Here, according to the last accented vowel, the individual letters of the rhymes’ syllables are not identical and sound only approximately the same. This is particularly noticeable when the vowels differ in the rhymes, although the consonance of similar consonants is rarely heard. The following is an example:
What’s for dinner today?
Ask Peter to be full of joy.
In this example too, the final rhizomes are arranged in pairs. The word today rhymes with joy. According to the double vowel (cf. diphthong) eu almost the same letters stand – in the first word te is found, in the second dec. Since the t is spoken hard and a soft, there is a slight, but audible, phonetic difference: an unclean rhyme. The following is an overview of frequently unclean combinations.
Unclean rhyme feature
Come quickly, Mom
There is a lama spitting behind. long and short vowels are rhymed
I was already in the woods today.
Then I felt quite terribly cold. Soft and hard consonants are rhymed.
Later there are bats,
thou untowe beet. Vowels (and dipthons) are rhymed to umlauts.
Where yesterday the lovers sat,
since today motorists race. voiced and voiceless sounds are rhymed.
And you hear the rich,
as they quietly “Please!” pant. Different diphthongs are rhymed.
Alone,
You painful dialect or even colloquial language is rhymed, here ch and g.
Short overview: The most important information about Reimart at a glance
A pure rhyme is called a rhyme style in which, according to a concise vowel (also umlaut and diphthong), the same rhyme syllables follow. In most cases such pure sequences are realized by the identical sequence of letters. But even if the spelling is different, but the sound is identical, one speaks of pure rhyme.
The so-called impure rhymes form a contrast. In this case, the uniformity of the rhymes is only approximately identical. In some cases, however, this fact is hard to hear. Special forms of the impure rhyme form the assonance and the eye-rhyme.