Rhyme Schemes in Poems

Poetry: Stylistic Techniques

• Poets use various styles in their poems to ensure that the audience is entertained.

• One of the major style is rhyme.

Ryhme

• Rhyme in poetry is a stylistic device/technique whereby the poet deliberately choses words with the same sound endings.

  Examples of rhyming words:
  . Pin and bin
  . class and glass
  . Tool and pool etc

Why do poets use rhyme in their poems?

• Rhyme enhances the beauty in a poem.

• It also adds musicality thus making the poem more enjoyable.

Rhyme Scheme

• Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem.

• It is represented using letters to indicate the different rhyme sounds.

• Understanding rhyme scheme helps analyze the structure and flow of a poem.

Types of Rhyme Scheme

There are 2 types of rhyme schemes:
1. Regular rhyme scheme- one can predict the next pattern.
2. Irregular rhyme scheme- one cannot predict the next pattern.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.