Internal rhyme is often between the midpoint and the line end, as exemplified by Coleridge, "In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud" or "Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white," (from "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 —
In popular cultureEdit
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...
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