Pop Quiz - Rhyme Scheme, Internal Rhyme, Alliteration, Allusion

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

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.

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./

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

If I can stop one heart from breaking/

I shall not live in vain/

If I can ease one life the aching/

Or cool one pain/

Or help one fainting robin/

Unto his nest again/

I shall not live in vain./

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

What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?

• abab bcbc cdcd ee

• abab cdcd efef gg

• abba abba cdecde

What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?

• abba cddc effe gg

• abab cdcd efef gg

• abab cdcd efgefg

Zeke zoomed lazily zapping his zebra. This is an example of ____________.

Rhyme scheme

• pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

• a plan to rhyme with words that don't sound alike

• A plot to overthrow the poetry council

• pattern of rhymes at the beginning of a sentence

Match the following

• a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line rhyming with the end or middle of the next line

• rhyme scheme

• AABAA/CCBCC

• internal rhyme

• reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem

• allusion