Rhyme Scheme

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? ("Dreams" by Langston Hughes)

Hold fast to dreams/

For if dreams die/

Life is a broken-winged bird/

That cannot fly./

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABAC

• ABCB

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

Fill in the blank. What is the rhyme scheme of "What are Heavy" by Christina Rossetti?

What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow/

What are brief? Today and tomorrow/

What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth/

What are deep? The ocean and truth.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

When I am dead and over me bright April/

Shakes out her rain-drenched hair/

Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted/

I shall not care./

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Read the following poem. What is the rhyme scheme?

I love the sun

I love the moon

I love having fun

I love a nice tune

I love life!

I love my cars

I love my home

I love the stars

I love to roam.

I love life!

• ababa, ababa

• aabbc, aabbx

• ababc, ababc

• abca, abca

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

I saw a little hermit crab

His coloring was oh so drab

What kind of stanza is these lines from a poem?

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!—

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

What is the rhyme scheme of these lines from a poem?

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABBA

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

What is the rhyme scheme of these lines from a poem?

• ABC

• ABB

• ABA

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Forgive these wild and wandering cries,

Confusions of a wasted youth;

Forgive them where they fail in truth,

And in thy wisdom make me wise.

What is the rhyme scheme of these lines from a poem?

• AABB

• ABBA

• ABAB

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which of the following is an example of couplet?

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• 
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CCSS.RL.7.4

The lady who has loved you as you've grown

Will always love and cherish you for all time.

She has the greatest heart ever known.

What kind of stanza is these lines from a poem?

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

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CCSS.RL.7.4