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! DBeware 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 -- FSo 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, ICame 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! KHe 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! NO 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; BAll 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?
