WorksheetsPoetry Terms Review- Rhymes and Rhyme Schemes
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
a ____ is a subdivision of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin.
Line Break
Stanza
Line
Rhyme
A _______ is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line
Stanza
Line Break
Line
Rhyme
A ______________ is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line.
Rhyme
Line End
Line Break
Stanza
In general, the repetition of the syllables at the end of a line of verse or poetry. (Words that have the same sound when spoken.)
Rhyme Scheme
Stanza
Line
Rhyme
The rhyming of the last words in the lines of poetry. (the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.)
Stanza
Rhyme Scheme
Poetic Meter
Line Break
Poems that do not have a rhyme scheme
Non-rhyming Poetry
Rhymeless Poetry
Free Verse/Blank Verse Poetry
Poetry Sans Rhymes
When determining the rhyme scheme of a poem or song, we generally use ___________ to indicate the rhyme scheme.
Rhymes
Letters
Numbers
Roman Numerals
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? ("Dreams" by Langston Hughes)
Hold fast to dreams/
For if dreams die/
Life is a broken-winged bird/
That cannot fly./
ABAB
AABB
ABAC
ABCB
What is the rhyme scheme of "What are Heavy" by Christina Rossetti?
What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow/
What are brief? Today and tomorrow/
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth/
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
(a)
When I am dead and over me bright April/
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair/
Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted/
I shall not care./
(a)
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?
If I can stop one heart from breaking/
I shall not live in vain/
If I can ease one life the aching/
Or cool one pain/
Or help one fainting robin/
Unto his nest again/
I shall not live in vain./
(a)
hit and put.A partial or imperfect rhyme. The vowel sounds in half rhymes are usually not identical. ("worm" and "swarm" or "blood" and "brood.")
Eye Rhyme
Half Rhyme
Exact Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse
Exact Rhyme
Multisyllabic Rhyme
Eye Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently (Ex. "cove and dove" and "wind and bind")
Half Rhyme
Eye Rhyme
Exact Rhyme
Multisyllabic Rhyme
Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different. (I.E. A perfect rhyme) ("dog and hog"; "red and dead". etc.)
Half Rhyme
Exact Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Eye Rhyme
What type of end rhyme do we see in Mos Def's "Respiration?"
We New York, the narcotic/
Strength in metal and fiber optics/
Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips/
Exact Rhyme
Half Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Eye Rhyme
What type of rhyme do we see in this poem?
"I take it you already know/
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?/
Others may stumble, but not you/
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through/"
Eye Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Multisyllabic Rhyme
Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle/
Underneath the western skies/
On my cayuse let me wander over yonder/
'Til I see the mountains rise/
— Cole Porter, Don’t fence me in
Eye Rhyme
Half Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
What type of rhyme do we see in Black Thought's "Respond/React"?
Slow up before you get dropped and closed like a caption/
Fractional kids don't know the time for action/
Styles got the rhythm that of an Anglo-Saxon/
Round of applause, an avalanche of clappin/
that's what happen, now what's your reaction?/
Exact Rhyme
Multisyllabic Rhyme
Eye Rhyme
rhymes that contain two or more syllables (ex. "lyrical line" and "Einstein")
Big Rhymes
Long Rhyme
Multisyllabic Rhymes
Exact Rhyme
