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Rhyme schemes

 


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: rhyming verse (2): poetry b: a composition in verse that rhymes2 a: correspondence in terminal sounds of units of composition or utterance (as two or more words or lines of verse) b: one of two or more words thus corresponding in sound c: correspondence of other than terminal word sounds:

A rhyme scheme is defined as a strategic arrangement of words that rhyme in a poem or stanza. One usually uses alphabets to indicate the rhyming lines in a poem to identify the rhyme scheme. For example: a,b,a,b is used to indicate that the first and third lines of the stanza rhyme, as do the second and the fourth.
 

Poetry.com rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

Rhyme patterns