Rhyme Scheme

Little kitten rolling around,

Chasing a piece of string,

Fluid in its beauty,

Amazed at everything.

• aabb

• abcb

• abab

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

The moon is washing windows,

Dancing off the glass,

Resting on the praying trees

And painting the sleeping grass.

• aabb

• abcc

• abcb

Here’s a mouse,

Building its house,

A nest in my hair –

Why’s it sleep there?

• abcd

• abcc

• aabb

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5

Glitter on my fingers,

Glitter in my hair,

Glitter on the carpet –

Glitter everywhere!

• abcd

• aabb

• abcb

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

What kind of stanza is these lines from a poem?

• couplet (two lines rhyme)

• tercet (three lines rhyme)

• quatrain (four lines rhyme)

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

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

I saw a little hermit crab

His coloring was oh so drab

These line make a...

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

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

On the beach I find myself

Happily patrolling the shore

I see many ships sailing about

And wonder what they're for

• AABB

• DEFE

• ABCB

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

The fallen leaves are cornflakes

That fills the lawn's wide dish,

And night and noon

The wind's a spoon

That stirs them with a swish

• AABBB

• ABABC

• ABCCB

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5