“…While a variety of rhyme types are verse-internal, the most common type in the European poetic tradition is end rhyme, in which rhyming words occur in verse-final position. End rhyme is typically tied to the occurrence of meter (Sievers, 1912; Zhirmunskij, 1966; but see Fabb, 1997, p. 118). Due to its prominent position, end rhyme serves a variety of functions (e.g., Eekman, 1974): It marks the end of the line as a rhythmic and melodic unit (Schramm, 1935), closes its gestalt and highlights its formal coherence (Turner & Pöppel, 1983), thus contributing to the realization of identity- and contrast-based rhyme schemes; moreover, rhyme decisively contributes to the emergence of the aesthetic trajectory of a poem (Donat, 2010, p. 74; Smith, 1968; Wassiliwizky, Koelsch, Wagner, Jacobsen, & Menninghaus, 2017).…”