Identifying and Using Rhyme Schemes

12. Identify this stanza’s rhyme scheme

What is the rhyme scheme for stanza 1?

What is the rhyme scheme for stanza 3?

What is the rhyme scheme for stanza 4?

What is a rhyme scheme?

• The pattern of a rhyme in a poem.

• The same words being used twice.

What is the rhyme scheme for these lines from “If”?
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
 If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

• ABBA

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABBBCCC

• ABCDAAA

• ABBBAAA

• ABCCDDD

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABCB

• AABA

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B A B C D A D

• Spaghetti! Spaghetti!

• A B B A C D D C

• No rhyme

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB