Instead, the poem has a variety of slants, or half-rhymes, and random end rhymes. These few interwoven sentences assist to bring the poem together, yet their sparse use allows it to read as casual, conversational speech. This is appropriate for a hitcher's voice; he is not expected to conform to traditional rhyme or meter. Half-rhymes can be either consonantal or vowel based. Consonantal half-rhymes involve the combination of two words that end with the same letter (examples include take/rake/smell/believe). Vowel half-rhymes have two words that share a vowel but not a consonant (examples include bake/bakey/hide/ride). Because consonantal half-rhymes are more common, they are used more frequently in language. However, vowel half-rhymes are important in some languages, such as Japanese, where they are used instead of whole-word rhymes. Hitcher uses half-rhymes to create a loose, conversational style poetry that fits well with its subject matter. Half-rhymes are effective at breaking up the monotony of repeating lines because they sound different even though they mean the same thing. For example, "drive/tree" and "see/sea" both mean "road".