Rhyme Schemes and Repetition

Terza Rima Rhyme Scheme

• Uses tercets, three-line stanzas, its interlocking pattern is: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.

• it often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of AAA

• a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme

• it uses the rhyme scheme of ABBA.

Rhyme scheme helps keep _______ and can make the poem fun.

• rhymes

• the poem going

• me awake

• rhythm

What is a "couplet" in poetry?

• A poem of 14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

• Two lines successive rhyming lines

• A group of eight lines

• A metrical foot made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Couplet

• a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme, it uses the pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF.

• It uses the rhyme scheme of ABBA.

• Uses tercets, three-line stanzas, its interlocking pattern is: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.

• It contains two-line stanzas with the AA rhyme scheme of AA BB CC and DD.

end rhyme

• repetition of consonant sounds within words, phrases and sentences

• repetition of vowel sounds within words, phrases and sentences

• when the last words of poem lines rhyme

• words that imitate the sound it makes

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

• AABBCC

• ABABCC

• ABABBB

• ACBCBA

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea,

Yet never in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

• ABBA

• ABCB

• ABAB

• ABCD

Enclosed Rhyme

• It often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of AAA

• It uses the rhyme scheme of ABBA

• a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme.

• Also known as ABAB rhyme scheme, it uses the pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF

Identify the rhyming words in the nursery rhyme below. Select the correct answer below. (Select 3 answer)

• one - down

• dock - clock - struck

• ran - one

• up - down

• Hickory - Dickory

11. Identify this stanza’s rhyme scheme