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.
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 "Whatif":
| Last night, while I lay thinking here, | A |
| Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear | A |
| And pranced and partied all night long | B |
| And sang their same old Whatif song: | B |
It can thus be seen that this poem follows \(AABB\) pattern.
Important!
However, it is important to note that the following pair of lines from the poem doesn't rhyme:
- Whatif they start a war? / Whatif my parents get divorced?
On the other hand, the following two pairs of lines are not the standard examples of rhyming lines though they rhyme:
- Whatif nobody likes me? / Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me? (The same word is repeated.)
- Whatif I don’t grow taller? / Whatif my head starts getting smaller? (Seemingly similar words are repeated.)
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