Poetry and Rhyme Scheme

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?

• ABCDB

• ABCDA

• ABCCB

• ABCDD

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

Instead of a paragraph, a chunk of lines in poetry are called a...

• paragraph

• stanza

• couplet

• rhyme

Rhyming words sound the same ...

• at the beginning of the word

• at the beginning of the sentence

• at the end of the word

• because they mean the same

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABBB

• ABAB

• ABCB

• ABBA

• ABCABC

• AABBCC

• AABCCB

• AABCCD