Rhyme Schemes
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Rhyme Schemes
Rhyme Schemes
A rhyme scheme is the order of the rhyming words at the end of the verse, line.
Alternate Rhyme
It is also known as ABAB rhyme scheme, it rhymes as “ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.”
Ballad
Ballads are generally written in quatrains with a regular rhyme scheme of ABCB, or ABAB because of the musical quality of this rhyme pattern
Triplet
It often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of “AAA.”
Enclosed Rhyme
It uses rhyme scheme of “ABBA”
Terza Rima Rhyme Scheme
It uses tercets, three lines stanzas. Its interlocking pattern on end words follow:
Aba bcb cdc ded and so on…
Keats Odes
rhyme scheme
In his famous odes, Keats has used a specifc rhyme scheme, which is “ABABCDECDE.”
Limerick
A poem uses fve lines with rhyme scheme of “AABBA.”
Villanelle
A nineteen-line poem consisting of fve tercets and a fnal quatrain is villanelle and uses