Entertainment / Literature / Rhyme Scheme: The pattern of rhyme. The traditional way to mark these patterns of rhyme is to assign a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound at the end of each line. For instance, here is the first stanza of James Shirley's poem 'Of Death,' from 1659. I have marked each line from the first stanza with an alphabetical letter at the end of each line to indicate rhyme: The glories of our blood and state A Are shadows, not substantial things, B There is no armor against fate, A Death lays his icy hand on kings: -B Scepter and crown ---C Must tumble down, C And in the dust be equal made D With the poor crooked scythe and spade. -D Thus, the rhyme scheme for each stanza in the poem above is ABABCCDD. It is conventional in most poetic genres that every stanza follo
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Entertainment / Literature / Rhyme: Also spelled rime, rhyme is a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical. For instance, the word-pairs listed MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Rhyme Royal: A seven-line stanzaic form invented by Chaucer in the fourteenth century and later modified by Spenser and other Renaissance poets. In rhyme royal, the stanzas are writen in iambic pentameter in a fix MORE