Free verse.
A quatrain can have an AABB rhyme scheme, but can also have ABAB or AAAA rhyme scheme.
...a rhyming couplet. If the first syllable of each line is stressed, it's a 'heroic' rhyming couplet.
Alternate rhyming is also called "cross rhyming", meaning the lines alternate between two rhyming words as in abab. The effect created is that of an echo or a return to the rhyme in a pattern that makes the ear expect the rhyme without being as repetitious as a string of couplets. In other words, it delays the rhyme by inserting another rhyme as in a cross stitch or a round, where you have two rhyming words that "cross" between each other. For example: All I have I give to you you mean the world to me and everything I say or do I do so willingly There are often terms for a specific style or rhyme pattern that most people don't know because they use their ears and memory and don't really study the form. For example, the pattern abba is also called "envelope rhyme", or "arched rhyme" meaning the couplet in the middle, "bb", is enveloped withing the outer rhyme of "a__a", or that the pattern creates an "arch". The pattern "ababbcc" is called "rhyme royal", and "aaab cccb" is called "chain rhyme". Each of these, in combination with the meter or cadence of the poem, creates a specific mood, tone or feeling. This is why it's important to match the style of the poem to the topic and effect you want to create. You wouldn't want to write a serious poem about death using a nursery rhyme style...unless you were trying to create a specific feeling that required the apparent mis-match of topic and style. --GINALYN USON TAN-- ..SEHS..
A perfect rhyme occurs between two words or phrases in which the stressed vowel sound in each word is identical, and the articulation that precedes the vowel is not the same. An example of a perfect rhyme occurs between the words lamppost and almost.
Just look at the last words of each line: day, temperate, May, date, shines, dimm'd, declines, untrimm'd, fade, owest, shade, growest, see, thee. Then check to see which words rhyme with each other: "day" rhymes with "May", so we say that both of those lines have rhyme "a"; "temperate" and "date" rhyme so we call these two lines rhyme "b". Therefore the rhyme scheme of the first four lines is abab. You can figure out the rest in about two seconds: it's a typical Shakespearean sonnet.
The poem "Coal" by Audre Lorde follows an ABAB rhyme scheme. This means that alternating lines in each stanza rhyme with each other.
The poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet follows an AABBCC rhyme scheme throughout. Each set of two lines rhyme with each other.
"Like a Molave" by Rafael Zulueta da Costa follows a rhyme scheme of ABAB in each stanza. This means that the first and third lines rhyme with each other, while the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other as well.
The poem "1996" by Tagore follows a rhyme scheme of ABAB in each stanza. This means that for every four lines, the first and third lines rhyme with each other, and the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
The poem "The Reservist" by Boey Kim Cheng follows an AABB rhyme scheme in each stanza. This means that the first and second lines rhyme with each other, as do the third and fourth lines.
The rhyme scheme for the poem "In Spite of War" by Angela Morgan follows an AABB pattern in each stanza, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain rhyming.
An example of a ballad with an AB-CD rhyme scheme is "Tam Lin," a traditional Scottish ballad. Each stanza in this ballad follows the AB-CD rhyme scheme where the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
The poem "Little Boy Found" by William Blake follows an AABB rhyme scheme. This means that the first and second lines, and the third and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme with each other.
The rhyme scheme in "Battle for Rondo" by Emily Rodda follows an AABB pattern for each stanza, with the first and second lines, and the third and fourth lines rhyming with each other.
The poem "George Gray" by Edgar Lee Masters follows a consistent ABCB rhyme scheme, which means that every second and fourth line rhyme with each other. This structured rhyme scheme helps to create a sense of musicality and continuity throughout the poem.
Sonnet 292 follows the typical rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean (English) sonnet, which is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Each letter represents a different rhyme sound, with each quatrain (four-line stanza) following the ABAB rhyme scheme and the final couplet having a GG rhyme.
Rhyming Scheme