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Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme) is the rhyme scheme ABBA (that is, where the first and fourth lines, and the second and third lines rhyme). Enclosed-rhyme quatrains are used in introverted quatrains , as in the first two stanzas of Petrarchan sonnets .
The poet's choice of the ABBA rhyme scheme (or enclosed rhyme scheme) emphasizes the simplicity of the poem. The pararhyme of 'Theirs', ‘gears’, ‘tears’ and ‘repairs’ combines the two quatrains together and puts 'Theirs' (take note of the capital letter) at the heart of the poem.
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick:
In other words, the octet has two quatrains of enclosed rhyme, and the sestet has a quatrain of alternating rhyme and a concluding couplet. The poem tells of a butcher, Reuben Bright, who might be supposed to be rough and unfeeling because of his profession, but when news is brought that his wife is to die, he cries like a baby.
Following the rhyme scheme of the Villanelle, but with 5 extra couplets just after each tercet. Cinquain: rhyme scheme ABABB. Clerihew: rhyme scheme AABB. Enclosed rhyme (aka enclosing rhyme): ABBA. Ghazal: AA BA CA DA; Kural: Tamil verse form; Limerick: AABBA. Monorhyme: an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic: AAAAA.
Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison checks in with a column about couplets, which poets like Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot used to great effect.
Broken rhyme is a type of enjambement producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line. Cross rhyme matches a sound or sounds at the end of a line with the same sound or sounds in the middle of the following (or preceding) line. [8] A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines ...
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