Internal rhyme--rhyming patterns within a single line of poetry--can occur regularly or occasionally, and sometimes represents an enrichment of sound pattern more than a structural element. In adapting the ballad form for more elaborate purposes, Coleridge introduced copious internal rhymes in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

With throats unslaked, with black lips baked
We could not laugh or wail
 
 
 
 

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