Rhyme & Rhyme Scheme

Rhyme

Rhyming words have the same end sound Ex. ball and fall; share and care; glad and bad

Keep in mind that rhyme depends on sound, not on spelling Here and There do not rhyme but have similar

spelling Here and Fear do rhyme

Rhyming Pairs

ToughDoughStoodPairBlueWeighedToeHere

Rearrange this list of words into rhyming pairs:

SpiteSmileEnoughShouldMareThroughSaidDear

AisleBreadMadePearlDieFlyTwirlPlight

Rhyme Scheme

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or in lyrics for music. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme.

Rhyme Scheme

For example "abab" indicates a four-line stanza in which the first and third lines rhyme, as do the second and fourth.

Bid me to weep, and I will weep,

While I have eyes to see;

And having none, yet I will keep

A heart to weep for thee.

Label the Rhyme Scheme

Murmuring how she loved me -- sheToo weak, for all her heart's endeavour,

To set its struggling passion freeFrom pride, and vainer ties dissever,

And give herself to me for ever.

Rhyme Scheme: a b a b b

Cinquain

Label the Rhyme Scheme

I THINK that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

Rhyme Scheme: a a b b

Couplets

Label the Rhyme Scheme

There once was a man from Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

But his daughter, named Nan,

Ran away with a man

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

Rhyme Scheme: a a b b a

Limerick

Limericks

A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a

triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem.

The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming.

Limericks

Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's.

Limericks are meant to be funny.

The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke."

Complete this Limerick

There once was a pauper named Meg

Who accidentally broke her _______.

She slipped on the ______.

Not once, but thrice

Take no pity on her, I __________.

Writing Limericks

Make a list of 5 – 6 places you have visited or lived (cities, provinces/states, countries, etc.)

Choose 2 places that are easiest to rhyme.

Brainstorm at least 3 words that rhyme with that word

Beijing: bring, fling, king, Ming, opening, ring, sing, sling, sting, thing…

Writing a Limerick

Using the templates below, write a limerick by filling in your words.

You must use past tense.

There once was a ______________ from __________________.

All the while s/he hoped _______________________________.

So s/he _______________________________.

And _________________________________.

That ___________________ from ________________________.