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

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 ... This poem is made up of rhyming couplets

4. Alternate Rhyme (Cross Rhyme) • Neither Out Far nor In Deep by Robert Frost • The people along the sand They 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 glass cdcd, 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 again The first & last line • And we grow old? No, they die too. in each stanza • Their yearly trick of looking new rhyme with each • Is written down in rings of grain. other & envelop or • embrace the two • Yet still the unresting castles thresh center 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: a a a b a a a b b a a b a c b b b b c b c b b d c c c b c b d c c

7. Tail Rhyme a There a can be b more linesc per c stanza, b but the last lines d or “tails” d rhyme! b e e b Yonder Clouden's silent towers, Where at moonshine midnight hours O'er the dewy bending flowers Fairies dance saecheery. Ghaistnor bogle shalt thou fear; Thou'rtto Love and Heaven sae dear, Nochtof ill may come thee near, My bonnie dearie. Robert Burns, Scottish Poet