Rhyme Schemes

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.

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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.

A haiku is a Japanese poem!

• One of the most important form of traditional Japanese poetry haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
• There has been confusion between the three related terms Haiku, Hokku and Haikai, since early days.
• Hokku literally means "starting verse", and was the first starting link of a much longer chain of verses known as haika.
• Because the hokku set the tone for the rest of the poetic chain, it enjoyed a privileged position in haikaipoetry, and it was not uncommon for a poet to compose a hokku by itself without following up with the rest of the chain.

The creation of the term haiku came about largely through the efforts of Masaoka Shiki, who began a reform of this style of poetry in 1892 after which it became established as a new form to be written, read and understood as an independent poem, complete in itself, rather than part of a longer chain.

In the perspective of the history of haikai the famous verses of such Edo-period (1600-1868) masters as Basho,Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa are properly referred to as hokku even though they are now generally read as independent haiku.

The terms Classical Haiku and Modern Haiku are used to distinguish between hokku and haiku.

Shiki's reform did not change two traditional elements of haiku:

• the division of 17 syllables into three groups of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
• the inclusion of a seasonal theme.

Shiki's reform was carried further with two proposals by Kawahigashi Hekigoto:

• Haiku would be truer to reality if there were no center of interest in it.
• The importance of the poet's first impression, just as it was, of subjects taken from daily life, and of local colour to create freshness.

Example:

Haikus are like this:

five, seven, five syllables

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first line 5 syllables

second line 7 syllables

third line 5 syllables

A Haiku is an unrhyming verse form, conveying a complete image or feeling in three lines of syllables, and are usually about nature or natural things.

You can really make these poems about anything that you like. The Japanese most of the time make them about seasons of the year.

A Haiku poem is a Japanese poetry form with the first line with 5 syllables and the second with 7 syllables and the third with 5 syllables.

There are two kinds of "end rhymes." The first, is a rhyme in which the last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes.

The second type of "end rhyme" generally refers to words that rhyme on their "end" or last sound, which consists of the final vowel sound and all following sounds. This isn't necessarily the last syllable. For instance, if you rhymed "bungee" with "me," the "-ee" in "bungee" is what is meant by an "end" rhyme.

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An end rhyme is a rhyme where the sound consisting of the final vowel sound and all following consonants is exactly the same as another word. It doesn't necessarily mean that the final syllables are the same, because in a syllable you could have a consonant sound preceding a vowel sound. If the sounds of the final syllables of two words are the same, then that would be called a "last syllable rhyme." Here's an example: "Constable" has the last syllable "-ble." That means that any word with that same exact sound would be a last syllable rhyme. Therefore, "tenable" and "edible" are last syllable rhymes of "constable." However, an end rhyme of the word "constable" does not necessarily include the "b" sound found in the last syllable. Instead, any word ending with the sound "uhl" would be an end rhyme. Therefore, "angel" and "barrel" are both considered end rhymes of "constable."

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Some background is in order. Part of what is considered to make two words rhyme is that they not only sound alike, but that the portion of the word that sounds alike is the "tonic" or accented syllable of the two words. The tonic syllable in "bungee" is "bun-" so under "normal" circumstance, it would not be considered to rhyme with words like "me" or "agree."

Generally it is a rhyme of the last word (or the last syllable) of two or more lines of verse. For poetic rhymes, they may be considered words that rhyme only in the syllable that is at the end of the words. Examples: Eaten, rotten.