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  2. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or ... a simple couplet with a rhyme scheme of AABB lends itself to simpler direct ideas ...

  3. Clerihew - Wikipedia

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    The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject. The rhyme scheme is AABB, and the rhymes are often forced. The line length and metre are irregular.

  4. Decasyllabic quatrain - Wikipedia

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    Decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB. Examples of the decasyllabic quatrain in heroic couplets appear in some of the earliest texts in the English language, as Geoffrey Chaucer created the heroic couplet and used it in The Canterbury Tales. [1]

  5. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Following the rhyme scheme of the Villanelle, but with 5 extra couplets just after each tercet. Cinquain: rhyme scheme ABABB. Clerihew: rhyme scheme AABB. Enclosed rhyme (aka enclosing rhyme): ABBA. Ghazal: AA BA CA DA; Kural: Tamil verse form; Limerick: AABBA. Monorhyme: an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic: AAAAA.

  6. Tanaga - Wikipedia

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    A poetic form similar to the Tanaga is the Ambahan. Unlike the Ambahan whose length is indefinite, the Tanaga is a seven-syllable quatrain. Poets test their skills at rhyme, meter and metaphor through the Tanaga because is it rhymed and measured, while it exacts skillful use of words to create a puzzle that demands an answer.

  7. A Cradle Song - Wikipedia

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    Each stanza follows an "AABB" rhyme scheme. “A Cradle Song” follows a couplet structure where each pair of lines rhyme. This lends the poem a graceful sound and makes it easy to sing. While writing this poem, Blake drew from the image of a mother sitting over her infant while the baby is in her crib falling sleep.

  8. Sestain - Wikipedia

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    This rhyme scheme was extremely popular in French poetry. It was used by Victor Hugo and Charles Leconte de Lisle. In English it is called the tail-rhyme stanza. [2] Bob Dylan uses it in several songs, including the A-strains of You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go and the B-strains of Key West (Philosopher Pirate).

  9. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd - Wikipedia

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    Stylistically, the poems by Marlowe and Raleigh are pastoral poetry written in six quatrains that employ a rhyme scheme of AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIBB JJBB. [2] Compositionally, each poem follows the unstressed and stressed pattern of iambic tetrameter, using two couplets per stanza, with each line containing four iambs. [3]