Rhyme schemes

  • AA BB (couplet)
  • AAA BBB (tercet/triplet)
  • ABAB CDCD (quatrain)
  • ABA BCB CDC DED (terza rima)
  • ABAB BCBC C (Spenserian stanza)
  • ABBA ABBA CDD CEE (Italian sonnet)
  • ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (Shakespearean sonnet)1
  • XAXA (as found in the ghazal)2
  • AAAA (monorhyme)
  • AAXA or AABA (as found in the ruba’i)3
  • AXXA
  • AXAA4

  1. A Poetry Handbook pg. 59-60] ↩

  2. Ghazal] ↩

  3. Ruba’i] ↩

  4. Have You Mastered all 7 of these Basic Rhyme Schemes? ↩

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21.01 poetry and lyrics 🖋
21.01 Poetry and Lyrics 🖋 [[Rhyme schemes]] [[Rhythmic variation]] [[Ding-dong theory]] [[Poetic meter]] [[The effects of enjambment]] [[Figures of rhetoric]]...