LANGUAGE CIRCLE: Journal lof Language and Literature 13(1) October 2018 p-ISSN 1858-0165 Available online at http://journal.unnes.ac.id e-ISSN 2460-853X Linguistic Deviation in Rhyme of Poems in Lewis Carroll‟s Through The Looking-Glass Almira Ghassani Shabrina Romala English Letters Department, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta Email: almiraromala@usd.ac.id Abstract One of the identities of a poem is reflected by its author‘s style of writing, including the use of rhymes. How each specific kind of rhymes formed by particular words marks the characteristics of poems, and likewise those in Lewis Carroll‘s Through the Looking-Glass. Therefore, this research aims to delineate the kinds and functions of rhymes and to explicate how Lewis Carroll forms the rhymes from linguistic deviation as his style of writing poems in Through the Looking-Glass. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from poems in Through the Looking-Glass novel. The data were collected by note-taking and phonetic transcription technique. The data were then analyzed to classify the kinds of rhyme and their functions and also to identify the linguistic deviation the author uses to form the rhymes. Lewis Carroll exploits various kinds of rhyme in Through the Looking-Glass, e.g. alliteration, assonance, consonance, euphony, cacophony, eye-rhyme, half-rhyme, perfect rhyme, internal rhyme, end rhyme, masculine rhyme, and feminine rhyme. Those rhymes are utilized to unite the poems, to reinforce and emphasize the author‘s intended meaning, to explain the implied sense and feeling, to clarify the imagery for the readers, to visualize the atmosphere of the poems, and also to achieve the poetic and musical functions. Moreover, in forming those rhymes, he employs phonological deviation, lexical deviation, grammatical deviation, semantic deviation, dialectal deviation, and deviation of historical period as his style of writing poems in Through the Looking-Glass novel. Keywords: rhymes, poem, linguistic deviation INTRODUCTION Poetry can be defined as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language (Perrine, 1969, p. 3). As one of the written literary works, it is a form of saying and expressing ideas in a language that takes sound devices or musical devices into account in order to illuminate the imaginative, emotional, and intellectual experience of the poets in a certain chosen technique to arose specific sense and experience in the readers or the hearers‘ mind (Sayuti, 2002, p. 3-4). One of the foremost sound devices in poetry is rhyme. Rhyme is also a major consideration in resolving the choice of words in poetry. In one of the novels written by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, there are several poems which embody customized rhymes and rhyme schemes or patterns that vary distinctively based on their specific roles in the plot of the story. Those transcendental rhymes and rhyme patterns of poems in Through the Looking-Glass novel become the distinctive features that make them atypical from any other poems. Moreover,