-ABAC or ABCB (known as unbounded or ballad quatrain), as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” or “Sadie and Maud” by Gwendolyn Brooks. -AABB (a double couplet ); see A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young.”

An ABBA rhyme scheme is a symmetrical poetic form where the first and fourth lines rhyme with each other, and the second and third lines rhyme with each other. E.g. The sun sets low beyond the hills A / Its golden rays now fade to night B / The stars begin their twinkling light B / While silence all the valley fills A.

This poem’s use of an ABABABCC rhyme scheme captures the essence of the titular journey. In the first six lines, the alternating rhymes represent the ebbs and flows of the ocean’s tides as the narrator sails to their destination.

What exactly is an ABABCC Rhyme Scheme? An ABABCC rhyme scheme refers to six lines in which the first and third lines end with words that rhyme, the second and fourth lines have matching end rhymes, and the fifth and sixth lines end with words that also rhyme.

Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme) is the rhyme scheme ABBA (that is, where the first and fourth lines, and the second and third lines rhyme). Enclosed-rhyme quatrains are used in introverted quatrains, as in the first two stanzas of Petrarchan sonnets. Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.

2021年5月26日 · ABA can lead to ABAA, ABAB or ABAC; ABB can lead to ABBA, ABBB or ABBC; ABC can lead to ABCA, ABCB, ABCC or ABCD. In general, the number of possible rhyme schemes for a poem with n lines is given by the so-called Bell number. In fact, Wikipedia explicitly lists this purpose and the list you're looking for: Rhyme schemes

This collection contains poems that use the ABAB rhyme scheme. The ABAB rhyme scheme is where the ending words of lines one and three (A) rhyme with each other and the ending words of lines two and four (B) rhyme with each other.

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Poems whose dominant rhyme scheme is: abbacc,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/rhyme_abbacc.html. For more information on citation, see How to cite the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project

enclosed rhyme, in poetry, the rhyming pattern abba found in certain quatrains, such as the first verse of Matthew Arnold ’s “Shakespeare”: Others abide our question. Thou art free. Out …