1. Rhyme Scheme:
The rhyming pattern
in a stanza or a
poem.

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Rhyme
Scheme
Depends on the
last word in each line

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Rhyme
Scheme
The rhyming lines
don’t have to be in
order

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Rhyme
Scheme
Is usually written
like:
AABB or ABAB
CDCD

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AABB? Look at a poem, like “The Porcupine” by
Ogden Nash: (yes, copy it into your notes)
Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

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AABB? What words rhyme?
Nudges
Grudges
Winter
Splinter

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AABB? •The first end word that rhymes is
given the letter A.
•Why A? Because it is first, and A is
first.
•Any line that ends with a words that
rhymes with the first rhyme word will
also be given the letter A.
•What two words in the Poem will be
given the letter A?

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AABB? •Grudges and Nudges
•What letter do you think we will
give the words Winter and
Splinter?

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AABB? •What is the Rhyme Scheme of
“The Porcupine” by Ogden
Nash
What if most of
the lines
rhyme, but
some lines
don’t?

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What is the
rhyme scheme
of the following
poem?
How many
stanzas are in
this poem?
“The Falling Star” by Sara Teasdale
I saw a star slide down the sky,
Blinding the north as it went by,
Too burning and quick to hold,
Too lovely to be bought or sold,
Good only to make wishes on
And then forever to be gone.

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What is the
rhyme scheme
of the following
poems?
How many
stanzas are in
this poem?
“The Crocodile” by Lewis Carroll (author of Alice in Wonderland)
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the nile
On every golden scale!
How Cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!

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•What is the rhyme
scheme of the
following poems?
•How many
stanzas are in this
poem?
•What do you think
the title of this
poem is?
•Are there any
similes?
“The _________” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely hands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.