1. { Rhyme – Mini-lesson

2. Do these lines of poetry rhyme? Twinkle, Twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are?

3. Which words make them rhyme? Twinkle, Twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are?

4. Which words make them rhyme? Twinkle, Twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are?

5. Do these lines of poetry rhyme? I must follow in their train Down the crooked fairy lane

6. Which words make them rhyme? I must follow in their train Down the crooked fairy lane

7. Which words make them rhyme? I must follow in their train Down the crooked fairy lane

8. When two lines of poetry rhyme, it’s called a COUPLET

9. Do these lines rhyme? A peanut sat on the railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter Along came a train– Toot, toot!– peanut butter!

10. Which words make them rhyme? A peanut sat on the railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter Along came a train– Toot, toot!– peanut butter!

11. Which words make them rhyme? A peanut sat on the railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter Along came a train– Toot, toot!– peanut butter!

12. Do these lines rhyme? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low.

13. What words make them rhyme? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low.

14. What words make them rhyme? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low.

15. What words make them rhyme? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low.

16. When four lines have an alternating rhyme pattern, it’s called a QUATRAIN

17. the cat in the hat went to bed, as the girl found the pearl in the oyster. the cat in the hat went to bed, as the girl found the pearl in the oyster. What is it called when rhyme occurs within the line of poetry?

18. Internal Rhyme

19. “it was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;” “it was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;” What do we call rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry?

20. End Rhyme

21. When an author sets up a poem so that certain lines rhyme with each other (specifically the end rhyme), it is called a RHYME SCHEME

22. Figuring out the Rhyme Scheme of a poem helps us understand the poem’s meaning better. We can use letters to mark the Rhyme Scheme, like this: Twinkle, Twinkle, little star A How I wonder what you are? A Up above the world so bright B Like a diamond in the night B

23. Twinkle, Twinkle, little star A How I wonder what you are? A Up above the world so bright B Like a diamond in the night B What type of poem is this? This poem is a Couplet poem. What is the Rhyme Scheme of this Couplet poem? AABB

24. What is the Rhyme Scheme for this poem? Way down South where bananas grow, A grasshopper stepped on an elephant’s toe The elephant said, with tears in his eyes, “Pick on somebody your own size”

25. What is the Rhyme Scheme for this poem? Way down South where bananas grow, A A grasshopper stepped on an elephant’s toe A The elephant said, with tears in his eyes, B “Pick on somebody your own size!” B AABB

26. What about the Rhyme Scheme for a Quatrain? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low.

27. What about the Rhyme Scheme for a Quatrain? I toss the branches up and down A And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown A And send them high and low.

28. What about the Rhyme Scheme for a Quatrain? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, B I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low. B

29. What about the Rhyme Scheme for a Quatrain? I toss the branches up and down A And shake them to and fro, B I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown A And send them high and low. B ABAB

30. Let’s Review. An Internal Rhyme is…

31. A rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry

32. An End Rhyme is…

33. A rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry.

34. A Rhyme Scheme is a…

35. A Rhyme Scheme is a pattern of rhymes in a poem.

36. And we figure out the rhyme scheme by…

37. A Rhyme Scheme is a pattern of rhymes in a poem. And we figure out the rhyme scheme by… looking at the last syllable of the line and assigning letters of the alphabet to sets of rhyming lines.