Rhyme & Repetition

What is the rhyme scheme for the following example?

One two

Tie my shoe

Three four

Close the door

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABAC

• AAAB

What is the following rhyme scheme called?

I wake up screaming from dreaming

One day I'll watch as you're leaving

'Cause you got tired of my scheming

• Alternating Rhyme

• Coupled Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

What is the following rhyme scheme called?

Twinkle twinkle little star (A)

How I wonder what you are (A)

Up above the clouds so high (B)

Like a diamond in the sky (B)

• Alternating Rhyme

• Coupled Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

What is the following rhyme scheme called?

Roses are red (A)

Violets are blue (B)

I’m out of my head (A)

Thinking of you (B)

• Alternating Rhyme

• Coupled Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

What is the rhyme scheme in the following example?

Don't be that way

Fall apart twice a day

I just wish you could feel what you say

Show, never tell

But I know you too well

Got a mood that you wish you could sell

• ABAB

• AABB

• AAABBB

What is the rhyme scheme in the following example?

One two

Three four

Tie my shoe

Close the door

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABAC

• AAAC

Where is the repetition in the following example?

On the Future! how it tells

Of the rapture that impels

To the swinging and the ringing

Of the bells, bells, bells,

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells—

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

• On the future!

• Bells, bells, bells

• To the swinging and the ringing

• To the rhyming and the chiming

Write an example of a coupled rhyme (AABB)

Write an example of an alternating rhyme (ABAB)

Write an example of repetition in poetry using the following phrase:

I saw...