Perfect and imperfect rhymes

In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa.

[6][7][8][9] In the 1977 song "God Save the Queen" by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols, the authors create a rhyme with the lines "God save the queen" and "the fascist regime".

[10] The 1979 song "Up the Junction" by English new wave band Squeeze makes extensive use of half-rhyme.

The opening verse, for example: I never thought it would happen With me and a girl from Clapham Out on the windy common That night I ain't forgotten Half rhyme is often used, along with assonance, in rap music.

This little piggy stayed (at) home...this little piggy had none.In The Hives's song "Dead Quote Olympics", singer Howlin' Pelle Almqvist rhymes idea with library:[13][14] This time you really got something, it's such a clever idea But it doesn't mean it's good because you found it at the libra-ri-a