More Rhymes

Triple Rhyme

Three syllables in the word rhyme. Examples:

icicles & bicyclesmathematical & problematical

Rhyming Couplets

Two lines of poetry which have an end-rhyme

Shakespearean Sonnets end with couplets:130

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.113

Incapable of more, replete with you My most true mind thus mak'th mine eye untrue.135

Let 'no' unkind no fair beseechers kill; Think all but one, and me in that one Will.133

And yet thou wilt, for I, being pent in thee, Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.

Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve MerriamOnce upon a timeI caught a little rhyme

I set it on the floorbut it ran right out the door

I chased it on my bicyclebut it melted to an icicle

I scooped it up in my hatbut it turned into a cat

I caught it by the tailbut it stretched into a whale

I followed it in a boatbut it changed into a goat

When I fed it tin and paperit became a tall skyscraper

Then it grew into a kiteand flew far out of sight ...

This poem is made upof rhyming couplets

Alternate Rhyme (Cross Rhyme)

Neither Out Far nor In Deep by Robert Frost

The people along the sand They cannot look out far.All turn and look one way. They cannot look in deep.They turn their back on the land. But when was that ever a barThey look at the sea all day. To any watch they keep?

As long as it takes to passA ship keeps raising its hull; This rhyme scheme is abab, The wetter ground like glass cdcd, efef, ghgh – each rhyme Reflects a standing gull. skips a line in the stanza.

The land may vary more;But wherever the truth may be-The water comes ashore,And the people look at the sea.

Embracing Rhyme (Envelope Rhyme)

The Trees by Philip Larkin

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said. The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. The rhyme scheme

is abba, cddc, effe. Is it that they are born again The first & last line And we grow old? No, they die too. in each stanza Their yearly trick of looking new rhyme with each Is written down in rings of grain. other & envelop or

embrace the two Yet still the unresting castles thresh center lines. In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

Chain Rhyme

The poet links stanzas together using rhyme. Some chain rhyme schemes are:a a ab a aa b b

a ab ac b bb b

c bc b bd cc c b

c bd cc

Tail Rhyme

a Therea can beb more linesc perc stanza,b but the last linesd or “tails”d rhyme!b

eeb

Yonder Clouden's silent towers, Where at moonshine midnight hours O'er the dewy bending flowers Fairies dance sae cheery.

Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear; Thou'rt to Love and Heaven sae dear, Nocht of ill may come thee near, My bonnie dearie.

Robert Burns, Scottish Poet