Poetry and Rhyme Scheme

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. 

What is the next part of the rhyme scheme?

• DD

• EE

• FF

• AA

The most common type of rhyme scheme is...

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

It is a pattern in which the last words at the end of lines of poetry sound alike.

• a. Alliteration

• b. Assonance

• c. Internal Rhyme

• d. End Rhyme

Choose the next line to make the lyrics an ABAB rhyme scheme?

• You wouldn't walk out the door.

• One plus one makes two.

• No more than mysteries and lies.

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Choose the next line to make the lyrics an ABAB rhyme scheme?

• You wouldn't walk out the door.

• One plus one makes two.

• No more than mysteries and lies.

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Choose the next line to make the lyrics an ABAB rhyme scheme?

-song lyrics by the Backstreet Boys

"I guess you were lost when I met you,

Still there were tears in your eyes.

So out of trust and I knew

___________________ . "

• You wouldn't walk out the door.

• One plus one makes two.

• No more than mysteries and lies.

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rhymes at the ends of lines

• complete rhyme

• partial rhyme

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme