Watch: How to use a rhyme scheme
What is a rhyme scheme?
Pattern rhyme is how we describe a poems rhyme scheme. This spaceship will demonstrate…
Written in the stars is the poem: “Stars above in the night, hanging there, oh so high. Look at them, they shine so bright, punching through the ink black sky.”
A rhyme scheme is when we look at the different patterns made by the rhyming words of the end of each line in a poem.
So we would say that this poem is A, B, A, B, because the first and third lines rhyme and the second and forth lines rhyme.
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How to use a rhyme scheme
You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem.
For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you should label those 'A'.
If the second and fourth lines of the poem rhyme, label these 'B'.
Then you can see your four line poem has an 'A B A B' rhyme scheme.
If all four lines rhyme with each other, this is an 'A A A A' rhyme scheme.
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