1. Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme

2. Types of Rhyme

3. End Rhyme When the words at the end of multiple lines in a poem have matching end sounds. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night” The cat sat on a mat These can come one after the other (like above), or they can alternate in a number of patterns (We’ll discuss this later). In Your Notes: Turn to your partner and quickly come up with a two-line example of end rhyme.

4. Internal Rhyme When words within a single line or sentence have matching end sounds.  “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” Note that this excerpt from The Raven contains both internal and end rhyme. In Your Notes: Turn to your partner and create a one line example of internal rhyme.

5. End/Internal Rhyme Variations Perfect Rhyme: When two words rhyme exactly and naturally. Forced Rhyme: When two words rhyme exactly, but the effect seems funny/weird.  “The boy took his toy to his friend Roy and it was a joy”. Visual Rhyme: When two words look like they rhyme when read on paper, but when spoken out loud they do not.  “Move” and “love”; “Rain and Again”

6. End/Internal Rhyme Variations Continued Add to Your Notes: Slant Rhyme: When words have a matching end vowel, or end consonant sound, but not both. They almost rhyme, but not quite. “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -”

7. Rhyme Scheme

8. When poems rhyme, they usually follow a predetermined pattern of end-rhyming. This is called a rhyme scheme.  In order to determine the rhyme scheme of a poem, we assign each set of different rhymes in a poem a letter. The first set of rhymes will be labeled A, the second set B, the third set C, and so on and so on.

9. For example: ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves A Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: B All mimsy were the borogoves, A And the mome raths outgrabe. B “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! C The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! D Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun C The frumious Bandersnatch!” D He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— F So rested he by the Tumtum tree And stood awhile in thought. F

10. Your turn! Turn to your partner and finish the worksheet as quickly as you can. Don’t worry about searching for meaning, just find the rhyming words and label them!