What is a ABCD rhyme scheme?

Answer 1

The following poem by George Herbert "Church Monuments" has the ABCABC rhyme scheme:

While that my soul repairs to her devotion,

Here I entomb my flesh, that it betimes

May take acquaintance of this heap of dust,

To which the blast of Death's incessant motion,

Fed with the exhalation of our crimes,

Drives all at last. Therefore I gladly trust

My body to this school, that it may learn

To spell his elements, and find his birth

Written in dusty heraldry and lines;

Which dissolution sure doth best discern,

Comparing dust with dust and earth with earth.

These laugh at jet and marble, put for signs,

To sever the good fellowship of dust,

And spoil the meeting: what shall point out them,

When they shall bow, and kneel, and fall down flat

To kiss those heaps which now they have in trust?

Dear flesh, while I do pray, learn here thy stem

And true descent, that, when thou shalt grow fat,

And wanton in thy cravings, thou mayst know

That flesh is but the glass which holds the dust

That measures all our time; which also shall

Be crumbled into dust. Mark here below

How tame these ashes are, how free from lust,

That thou mayst fit thyself against thy fall.

Answer 2

its when, in a line of poetry, none of the ending words rhyme with each other. For example, in Emily Dickinson's She Sweeps with Many Colored Brooms, none of the last words in each of the lines rhyme.

She sweeps with many-colored brooms, A

And leaves the shreds behind; B

Oh, housewife in the evening west, n C

Come back, and dust the pond! D

Answer 3

Homework's not really that hard

But let's make this easy for you...

That 'A' on your report card

Belongs to me now, it's true.

Answer 4

Yes, it is a couplet. In this case there are 4 couplets.

Answer 5

It is a common rhyme scheme used in poetry, when the 1st and 3rd line rhyme and the 2nd and 4th line rhyme.

Answer 6

it is where the A line rhmes with the A line in the next stanza and so on. like the B rhymes with B

Answer 7

Yeah, its poetry, there are no real rules to it... If you mess up too badly, just call it 'free rhyme'.

Answer 8

"Red flowers for you" by Shel Silverstein

Answer 9

Yes