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    Name 

                                                                              P o e t r y  

    What’s the Scheme?


    The rhyme scheme of a poem means the pattern of the rhymes. In labeling a rhyme scheme, each line is 
    assigned a letter. Lines that rhyme get the same letter. For example, in a quatrain (a four‐line stanza), if 
    the first two lines rhyme, and the last two lines rhyme, the rhyme scheme is AABB. If the first and third 
    lines rhyme and the second and fourth lines rhyme, the rhyme scheme is ABAB. Sometimes there are 
    lines in a poem that don’t rhyme with any other lines. In a quatrain in which the second and fourth lines 
    rhyme, but the first and third don’t rhyme with anything, the rhyme scheme is ABCB. 

    Read the poems below. Next to each line, identify the rhyme scheme. The first line of each poem has 
    already been labeled for you. 

    Bad Magic
     
     
     
     
      Molly had a bunny but the bunny wouldn’t hop  A 
      Charlie had a go‐cart but the go‐cart wouldn’t stop   
     
    Tina had a parakeet that didn’t sing so well   
     
      Nothing’s right! Is everybody under some weird spell?   
       
     
    Choosing Colors
     
     
     
    I pick purple  A 
     
     
    Jim picks blue   
     
    Kay picks yellow   
     
    How about you? 
       
     
    Don picks red   
     
    John picks pink 
         
     
    It’s time to play the game, I think! 
     
      Silly Verse
     
     
      Fee Fie King Kong  A 
    Something about    
    This poem is wrong!   
    Ding dong   
    Give us a shout   
    Let me know If you figure it out!   
     

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