interior rhyme

Internal rhyme is a poetic device where a word within a line rhymes with another word in the same line or a different line. This technique is used to create a pleasing sound for the reader and to unify a poem's structure.123

For example, in Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Cloud," the first and third lines demonstrate internal rhyme: "I am the daughter of Earth and Water, / And the nursling of the Sky; / I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; / I change, but I cannot die." Here, "Water" and "shores" create an internal rhyme. Edgar Allan Poe also uses internal rhyme in "The Raven," such as in the lines "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each / purple curtain".23