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  2. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a ... two different rhyme schemes for a two-line poem (AA, AB), and five for a three-line poem: AAA ...

  3. Rondeau (forme fixe) - Wikipedia

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    In the rondeau quatrain, the rhyme scheme is usually ABBA ab AB abba ABBA; in the rondeau cinquain it is AABBA aab AAB aabba AABBA. A typical example of a rondeau cinquain of the 15th century is the following: [3] Allés, Regrez, vuidez de ma presence; allés ailleurs querir vostre acointance; assés avés tourmenté mon las cueur,

  4. Ballade (forme fixe) - Wikipedia

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    The musical form of a ballade stanza is a bar form (AAB), with a first, repeated musical section (stollen) setting the two initial pairs of verses (rhyme scheme ab ab), and the second section (abgesang) setting the remaining lines including the refrain verse (bcbC). The two statements of the "A" section often have different endings, known as ...

  5. Sestain - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Triolet - Wikipedia

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    The triolet is a close cousin of the rondeau, the rondel, and the rondelet, other French verse forms emphasizing repetition and rhyme. The form stems from medieval French poetry and seems to have had its origin in Picardy. [2] The earliest written examples are from the late 13th century.

  7. Spenserian stanza - Wikipedia

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    Another possible influence is rhyme royal, a traditional medieval form used by Geoffrey Chaucer and others, which has seven lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme ABABBCC. The most likely influence, however, is the eight-line ballad stanza with the rhyme scheme ABABBCBC, which Chaucer used in his Monk's Tale.

  8. Weltende (Jakob van Hoddis) - Wikipedia

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    The poem is constructed out of two stanzas with always four verses. The rhyming scheme in the first stanza has an embracing rhyme (ABBA), in the second one a cross rhyme (CDCD). Metrical seen an iambic pentameter having some irregularities in the second stanza. The first one is accentuated with masculine cadences, the second one with female ...

  9. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]