PUMPA - SMART LEARNING
எங்கள் ஆசிரியர்களுடன் 1-ஆன்-1 ஆலோசனை நேரத்தைப் பெறுங்கள். டாப்பர் ஆவதற்கு நாங்கள் பயிற்சி அளிப்போம்
Book Free DemoThe pattern of rhymes at the ending of each line in a poem is called a rhyme scheme. Letters (A,B,C...) are usually used to express which lines rhyme. Verses that are designated with the same letter are said to rhyme with each other. It is also known as an arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem.
Example:
For easier understanding of the concept, let us take a famous nursery rhyme, written by Jane Taylor as an example.
Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
We see that the first two lines rhyme with each other (star-are); the second two lines rhyme with each other (high-sky). Let us name each line as \(A\), \(B\) depending on the words that rhyme with each other.
| Twinkle twinkle little star, | \(A\) |
| How I wonder what you are. | \(A\) |
| Up above the world so high | B |
| Like a diamond in the sky. | B |
It can thus be seen that this poem follows \(AABB\) pattern.
Rhyme scheme of the poem" The Kite":
How bright on the blue | A |
| Is a kite when it’s new! | A |
| With a dive and a dip | B |
| It snaps its tail | C |
| Then soars like a ship | B |
| With only a sail | C |
| As over tides | A |
| Of wind it rides, | A |
| Climbs to the crest | B |
| Of a gust and pulls, | C |
| Then seems to rest | B |
| As wind falls. | C |
| When string goes slack | A |
| You wind it back | A |
| And run until | B |
| A new breeze blows | C |
| And its wings fill | B |
| And up it goes! | C |
| How bright on the blue | A |
| Is a kite when it’s new! | A |
| But a raggeder thing | B |
| You never will see | C |
| When it flaps on a string | B |
| In the top of a tree. | C |
Important!
It can thus be seen that this poem follows \(AABCBC\) pattern.
Reference:
National Council of Educational Research and Training (2006). Honeysuckle. The Kite (pp. 27). Published at the Publication Division by the Secretary, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi.
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