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What is a rhyme scheme
The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza.


In example:

I'm writing a poem about a cat.
He likes to wear a silly hat.
He got it from the grocery store,
But he lost it and can't wear it anymore.

Or:

I have a dog
His name is Spot
He sleeps on a log
Outside when it's hot.

Every other line could rhyme, or 2 lines at a time could rhyme when going for poetry with rhyme scemes. The most popular rhyme schemes can be found in Sonnets.

. ABBB
is a type of poem with a ryme.

Rhyme scheme is the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza. Letters are assigned to the last word of each line of a poem to help decipher a poem's rhyme scheme.

For example, the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg

All of the a's rhyme with a's, b's with b's, c's with c's, and so on.
A rhyming scheme is a stanza of a story often found in a poem. The end words of these stanza lines often rhyme with each other.

What might cause someone to describe a line of poetry as musical

Repetition of sounds that create a feeling of forward motion

How can onomatopoeia be used as a form of synesthesia

The sound of the word can imitate a visual effect

What does emotion can be contagious in a poem mean

an image's context can affect the way the reader feels about it.

In 30 words or fewer, explain what Coleridge is reminding us to consider when writing poetry.

Word choice is important in both poetry and prose, but in poetry, each word stands out and should be the "best word" possible. The order of those words plays an important part too!

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