rhyme scheme
Noun
Meaning
rhyme scheme (plural rhyme schemes)
The pattern created by the rhymes at the ends of the lines of a stanza of poetry
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He also used his own rhyme scheme for the sonnet.
Indeed, the term " Rubaiyat " by itself has come to be used to describe the quatrain rhyme scheme that FitzGerald used in his translations: AABA. citation However, as a translation of Jomar Khayyam's quatrains, it is not noted for its fidelity.
These two have created an eeirie mirror image of Bemelmans's original, reflecting the rhyme scheme, pace and even color palette and illustration style, perfectly.
In a Spenserian sonnet, the last line of every stanza is linked with the first line of the next one, yielding the rhyme scheme ababbcbccdcdee.
Its rhyme scheme found in the first seven lines is repeated in the first seven lines of the second stanza.
Kastner 1903 p. 283 Pontus de Tyard was the first poet to attempt the form in French, and the only one to do so prior to the 19th century; he introduced a partial rhyme scheme in his sestina.