Poetry and Rhyme Scheme

Which couplet shows an AABB pattern

• There was a man,

  A tall, tall man

• Sam loved to eat

  Strawberry jam

• Among the rain

  and lights

• The sun is shining bright

  This is a lovely sight.

Rhyme scheme helps keep _______ and can make the poem fun.

• rhymes

• the poem going

• me awake

• rhythm

True or false: You can sometimes tell if a poem has rhythm just by looking at it

• False, you have to read it out loud

• True, if the lines are about the same length

• What is rhythm?

A pattern of end rhymes in a poem.

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhyme

When rhyming words come at the end of lines. This is the most common type of poetic rhyme.

• End Rhyme

• Lyric Poetry

• Repetition

• Theme

Which of these is a step to finding rhyme scheme?

• Highlight or underline the last word in each line

• Write letters next to each word to see what rhymes

• Write all the letters out in one line

• All of the Above

A form of poetry where a single speaker expresses his/her thoughts or feelings.

• Lyric Poetry

• Couplet

• Internal Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

The voice that "talks" to the reader.

• Stanza

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Speaker

A rhymed pair of lines.

• Lyric Poetry

• Couplet

• End Rhyme

• Stanza

A group of 2 or more lines that form a unit in a poem.

• Speaker

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Stanza