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 exemplified by Coleridge, "In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud" or "Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white," in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" also exhibits internal rhyme:

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 —

Internal rhyme is also used extensively in modern hip hop music, haven been pioneered by seminal artists such as Kool Moe Dee, and Rakim, as demonstrated in the latter's piece, "My Melody:

My unusual style will confuse you a while If I were water, I'd flow in the Nile So many rhymes you won't have time to go for your's Just because of applause I have to pause Right after tonight is when I prepare To catch another sucker-duck MC out there My strategy has to be tragedy, catastrophe And after this you'll call me your majesty...