Structure and Rhyme Scheme

Instead of a paragraph, a group of lines in poetry are called a...

• paragraph

• stanza

• couplet

• rhyme

I saw a little hermit crab

His coloring was oh so drab

What kind of stanza is these lines from a poem?

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

The lady who has loved you as you've grown

Will always love and cherish you for all time.

She has the greatest heart ever known.

What kind of stanza is these lines from a poem?

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

What kind of stanza is these lines from a poem?

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

Rhyme Schemes are formed by:

• The lines of a stanza

• The stanzas

• Ending word of a line

• The rhyming word at the end of the line

Which word rhymes with all three?

butterfly

shy

multiply

• bite

• eye

• ugly

• many

Which word does not rhyme with the following three?
kite
light
rewrite

• stoplight
• meteorite
• satellite
• sigh

Which word does NOT rhyme with flower?

• tower

• hour

• tour

• our

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

Any direction you choose.

• AABA

• ABCB

• AABB

• ABCD

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

• AABB
• ABAB
• ABCB

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