<P> In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines . By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme . </P> <P> Percy Dearmer (1867 - 1936) revised John Bunyan's (1628 - 1688) poem "To Be a Pilgrim" in 1906 . It became a popular hymn when Canon Charles Winfred Douglas (1867 - 1944) set it to music in 1917 . Here are Dearmer's lyrics, with the internal rhymes in bold . Notice that in these three quatrains the internal rhymes are also echoed in the line rhymes (also in bold). </P> <P> He who would valiant be' gainst all disaster, Let him in constancy follow the Master . There's no discouragement shall make him once relent His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim . Who so beset him round with dismal stories Do but themselves confound--his strength the more is . No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight, He will make good his right to be a pilgrim . Since, Lord, Thou dost defend us with Thy Spirit, We know we at the end, shall life inherit . Then fancies flee away! I'll fear not what men say, I'll labor night and day to be a pilgrim . </P>

Internal rhyme has one or both of the rhyme words within the line