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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.
Decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB. Examples of the decasyllabic quatrain in heroic couplets appear in some of the earliest texts in the English language, as Geoffrey Chaucer created the heroic couplet and used it in The Canterbury Tales. [1]
A clerihew (/ ˈ k l ɛr ɪ h j uː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
"Oh be resilient you stake Should the waters be coming! I shall cower as the moss To you I shall be clinging." The above Tanaga is attributed to Friars Juan de Noceda and Pedro de Sanlucar by Vim Nadera, and quoted them as saying “Poesia muy alta en tagalo, compuesta de siete silabas, y cuatro versos, llena de metafora.” (16th century) ("Poetry is quite high in Tagalog, composed of seven ...
The above meter and line length, often with rhyme scheme AABB., [3] was subsequently relaxed with alternative rhyming scheme ABAB as illustrated by the following verse from a 1904 collection of Willie Ballads: Willie walking on the track, The engine gave the worst of squeals, And then they turned the engine back And scraped off Willie from the ...
This rhyme scheme was extremely popular in French poetry. It was used by Victor Hugo and Charles Leconte de Lisle. In English it is called the tail-rhyme stanza. [2] Bob Dylan uses it in several songs, including the A-strains of You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go and the B-strains of Key West (Philosopher Pirate).
A Balliol rhyme is a doggerel verse form with a distinctive metre.It is a quatrain, having two rhyming couplets (rhyme scheme AABB), each line having four beats. They are written in the voice of the named subject and elaborate on that person's character, exploits or predilections.
Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. [1] The form enjoyed significant success in the fifteenth century and into the sixteenth century. It has had a more subdued but continuing influence on English verse in more recent centuries.