Rhyme Schemes and Usage

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B C D E F G
• AA BB CC DD
• A B C B A B C D
• A B A B C D C D

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B A B C D A D
• No rhyme scheme
• A A B B C C
•  LMNOP

What is rhyme scheme?

• I don't know. 
• Don't care. 
• Don't like poetry.
• The pattern of the rhyme in a poem. 

a poem that is meant to tell a funny story, has 5 lines, and the rhyme scheme is AABBA

• Limerick
• Haiku
• Sonnet
• Narrative

11.This is a limerick. Read it and pick the final word that fits: An elephant lay in his bunk,

In slumber his chest rose and sunk,

He snored and he snored

Till the jungle folks roared-

Then his wife tied a knot in his

• bunk

• skunk

• lumber

• trunk

A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter and must follow a certain rhyme scheme.

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Ballad

• Free Verse

Match the type of poem to the definition

• Exactly 14 lines

  Has a specific rhyme scheme

• Limerick

• Humorous poem

  Three long and two short lines

  Rhyme scheme of AABBA

• Sonnet

• Long poem

  About the adventures of heroes

• Ode

• Short

  Song-like

  Expresses emotion

• Epic Poem

• Written in praise of a person, thing, or event

• Lyric

1. Little kitten rolling around,

Chasing a piece of string,

Fluid in its beauty,

Amazed at everything.

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

• ABCD

2.The moon is washing windows,

Dancing off the glass,

Resting on the praying trees

And painting the sleeping grass.

• ABAB

• ABCB

• AABB

• ABCA

3.Here’s a mouse,

Building its house,

A nest in my hair –

Why’s it sleep there?

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABCD

• ABCB