Saturday, November 27, 2010

Rhyme Scheme



Let's start with something short.

Four

Four year olds are children of the sky:  A
Opening to mystery and light,  B
Understanding sorrow and delight,  B
Racing towards the farthest reach of why.  A


Are there rhyming couplets, is the poem written in free verse, or is there a rhyme scheme to this poem?


What types of rhyme did you find in this poem?
    End Rhyme?
    Internal Rhyme?
    Slant Rhyme?
    Exact Rhyme?


And now something a bit longer.


JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

 
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves  A  
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:  B
All mimsy were the borogoves,  A  
And the mome raths outgrabe.  B

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!  C  
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!  D
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun  C  
The frumious Bandersnatch!"  D

He took his vorpal sword in hand:  E  
Long time the manxome foe he sought --  F
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,  G  
And stood awhile in thought.  F

And, as in uffish thought he stood, H  
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,  I
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,  H  
And burbled as it came!  I

One, two! One, two! And through and through  J  
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! K
He left it dead, and with its head L  
He went galumphing back. K 

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? M  
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! N
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' M  
He chortled in his joy. N
 
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves  A  
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; B
All mimsy were the borogoves, A  
And the mome raths outgrabe. B 

Are there rhyming couplets, is the poem written in free verse, or is there a rhyme scheme to this poem?

What types of rhyme did you find in this poem?
    End Rhyme?
    Internal Rhyme?
    Slant Rhyme?
    Exact Rhyme?

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