A good example is Jabborwocky by Louis Carroll. It's the good poem to experience the use of rhythm in a poem - also known as a rhyme.
If you want to know more... there are different kinds of rhythms. And they have names... well funny names so most of us find new Words or sounds... and there are only four basic rhythms and I use the "duhs"... 1. duh DUH, 2. DUH duh, 3. duh duh DUH (I also call that the rocking horse rhythm), 4. DUH DUH duh
It is the rhyme scheme that gives the rhythm its complexity. :) That is another and longer answer.
There are more aspects of poems that make up its pentameter (speed or flow). Shakespeare uses Iambic Pentameter which is made up of five "DUHs" - but because many Words have lost their rhythm, most of his works are for very high level study. They can teach us much about the history of poems.
Rhymes
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Techniques used to write rhyming poetry include rhyming some Words whose sound is different. Examples are (dumb / nun) called oblique, or matching the vowel (wake / gate - called assonance ) or consonants (jobs / hobs - called consonance ). The last is where we only rhyme the last consonants of the Word (gates / powerpacks - called half rhyme.
A more fun example of a poem that has Rhythm is in musical lyrics - as the rhythms in the lyrics compliment the rhythms in the melodies.
Rhythm is a type of way to tell a poem. You usually have a beat or backround music in a rhythm poem.
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