Rhyme Scheme

Instead of a paragraph, a chunk of lines in poetry are called a...

• paragraph

• stanza

• couplet

• rhyme

Rhyming words sound the same ...

• at the beginning of the word

• at the beginning of the sentence

• at the end of the word

• because they mean the same

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

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.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

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.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

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

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABBBCCC

• ABCDAAA

• ABBBAAA

• ABCCDDD

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.5

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABCB

• AABA

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.5

CCSS.W.6.9A

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABCDB

• ABCDA

• ABCCB

• ABCDD

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.5

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABBB

• ABAB

• ABCB

• ABBA

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.5

• ABCABC

• AABBCC

• AABCCB

• AABCCD

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CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.K.5C