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Patterns in Poetry 

Types of Rhyme Scheme

There are a number of rhyme schemes used in poetry; some of the most popular of which include:

  • Alternate rhyme: It is also known as ABAB rhyme scheme, it rhymes as “ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.”

  • Ballade: It contains three stanzas with the rhyme scheme of “ABABBCBC” followed by “BCBC.”

  • Monorhyme: It is a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme.

  • Couplet: It contains two-line stanzas with the “AA” rhyme scheme, which often appears as “AA BB CC and DD…”

  • Triplet: It often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of “AAA.”

  • Enclosed rhyme: It uses rhyme scheme of “ABBA”

  • Terza rima rhyme scheme: It uses tercets, three lines stanzas. Its interlocking pattern on end words follows: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.

  • Keats Odes rhyme scheme: In his famous odes, Keats has used a specific rhyme scheme, which is “ABABCDECDE.”

  • Limerick: A poem uses five lines with a rhyme scheme of “AABBA.”

  • Villanelle: A nineteen-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain. It uses a rhyme scheme of “A1bA2, abA1, abA2, abA1, abA2, abA1A2.

https://literarydevices.net/rhyme-scheme/

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