Identifying and Using Rhyme Schemes

12. Identify this stanza’s rhyme scheme

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme for stanza 1?

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme for stanza 3?

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is the rhyme scheme for stanza 4?

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is a rhyme scheme?

• The pattern of a rhyme in a poem.

• The same words being used twice.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme for these lines from “If”?
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
 If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

• ABBA

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABBBCCC

• ABCDAAA

• ABBBAAA

• ABCCDDD

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABCB

• AABA

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B A B C D A D

• Spaghetti! Spaghetti!

• A B B A C D D C

• No rhyme

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CCSS.RL.7.4

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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CCSS.RL.7.4