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Types of Rhyme
Perfect Rhyme: The words are in complete aural correspondence. An example would be: Certain and Curtain.
Forced Rhyme: An unnatural rhyme that forces a rhyme where it should not otherwise be.
Slant Rhyme: The words are similar but lack perfect correspondence. Example: found and kind, grime and game.
Masculine Rhyme: Has a single stressed syllable rhyme. Example: fight and tight, stove and trove.
Feminine Rhyme: A stressed syllable rhyme followed by an unstressed syllable. Example: carrot and garret, sever and never.
Visual Rhyme: A rhyme that only looks similar, but when spoken sound different. Example: slaughter and laughter. This type of rhyme can be used more to make a visual pattern than to make a aural rhyme.
Again we can see, using the examples from the Creeley and Merrill poems, one way that rhyme can be used effectively in free verse. Here, as with the meter, the effect of variance comes from the establishment of the poem having no set rhyme scheme and then putting a rhyme into the poem.
Another often-seen rhyme technique is internal rhyme. With internal rhyme, the rhyme comes in the middle of the line rather than the end.
A good example of this is in the first stanza of Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven":
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 someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
Note that in lines 1 and 3 you get an internal rhyme with "dreary" and "weary," and "napping" and "tapping." This technique can sometimes be used to de-emphasize a rhyme that would otherwise be too obvious.
Scansion

There are three kinds of scansion: the graphic, the musical and...