1. More Rhymes Triple Rhyme Three syllables in the word rhyme. Examples: icicles & bicycles mathematical & problematical

2. Rhyming Couplets Two lines of poetry which have an end-rhyme Shakespearean Sonnets end with couplets: 130 And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. 113 Incapable of more, replete with you My most true mind thus mak'th mine eye untrue. 135 Let 'no' unkind no fair beseechers kill; Think all but one, and me in that one Will. 133 And yet thou wilt, for I, being pent in thee, Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.

3. Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve Merriam Once upon a time I caught a little rhyme I set it on the floor but it ran right out the door I chased it on my bicycle but it melted to an icicle I scooped it up in my hat but it turned into a cat I caught it by the tail but it stretched into a whale I followed it in a boat but it changed into a goat When I fed it tin and paper it became a tall skyscraper Then it grew into a kite and flew far out of sight...

4. Alternate Rhyme (Cross Rhyme) Neither Out Far nor In Deep by Robert Frost The people along the sandThey cannot look out far. All turn and look one way.They cannot look in deep. They turn their back on the land.But when was that ever a bar They look at the sea all day.To any watch they keep? As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps raising its hull;This rhyme scheme is abab, The wetter ground like glasscdcd, efef, ghgh – each rhyme Reflects a standing gull.skips a line in the stanza. The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be- The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.

5. Embracing Rhyme (Envelope Rhyme) The Trees by Philip Larkin The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said. The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief.The rhyme scheme is abba, cddc, effe. Is it that they are born againThe first & last line And we grow old? No, they die too.in each stanza Their yearly trick of looking newrhyme with each Is written down in rings of grain.other & envelop or embrace the two Yet still the unresting castles threshcenter lines. In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

6. Chain Rhyme The poet links stanzas together using rhyme. Some chain rhyme schemes are: aaa baa abba ba cbbb cb cbb dc ccb cb dc c

7. Tail Rhyme a There a can be b more lines c per c stanza, b but the last lines d or “tails” d rhyme! b e b Yonder Clouden's silent towers, Where at moonshine midnight hours O'er the dewy bending flowers Fairies dance sae cheery. Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear; Thou'rt to Love and Heaven sae dear, Nocht of ill may come thee near, My bonnie dearie. Robert Burns, Scottish Poet