Hello, Friends!
Okay, so I haven't done much with this blog for, well, the whole
school year. Sorry about that! I got really busy. I'm hopefully going to keep it up this summer, and I'll see about next year. I need to figure out what my school schedule looks like, and then I can figure out this blog. Sorry, everyone! Also, Happy Summer!
In any case, I'm going to continue a
series I had just started before, well, not posting for a while. If
you want to read the Intro to Poetry post, click here.
So, today, we're going to talk about rhyme schemes.
Rhyme schemes are basically the ways of identifying rhyming patterns
throughout a poem. They are often labeled with letters. Let's look at
a few examples:
“When the Dark Comes Rising” from The Dark is Rising
series by Susan Cooper:
When
the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back;-A
Three from the circle, three from the track;-A
Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone;-B
Five will return and one go alone.-B
Three from the circle, three from the track;-A
Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone;-B
Five will return and one go alone.-B
Most of you probably learned this at some point
in elementary school. However, rhyme schemes are nice to be able to
recognise, and they can get quite complicated.
Here's another example: “The Pied Piper of
Hamelin” by Robert Browning. (I've used this poem to analyze
stressed and unstressed syllables in a previous post, so that's why
it might sound familiar. :) )
Hamelin
town's in Brunswick,By famous Hanover city; -A
The River Weser, deep and wide,-B
Washes its wall on the southern side;-B
A pleasanter spot you never spied;-B
But, when begins my ditty,-A
Almost five hundred years ago,-C
To see townsfolk suffer so-C
From vermin, was a pity.-A
So, the
rhyme scheme for “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” is a little more
complicated, but a little less predictable. Rhyme schemes don't have
to follow a pattern, although they often do. Browning's rhyme scheme
for “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” used a little bit of a looser
structure.
Rhyme schemes get even more complex, however, and actually, rap music is brilliant at rhymes. However, most rap music contains content I do not agree with. As a result, here is part of “Alexander Hamilton” from the musical Hamilton.
Moved
in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
Left
him with nothin' but ruined pride,
something new inside
First
of all, there are tons of really cool literary devises in this, not
just the rhyming, but I'm not going to talk about those today. :) In
any case, the lavender words all rhyme. At least, they sound very
close to rhyming. The cool thing about this is phrases that are more
than one word rhyme. This is harder to do, but also sounds amazing.
Also, the rhymes are not always in the same place! I think this is
fun. :) Rhymes in rap music can get much more complicated and
brilliant than this, but if you want to find out more, you'll have to
look it up. As I said, rap music often has material I do not agree
with in it, so I did not add links to videos or anything.
What
are your favorite poems? Why? Post in the comments!
Spruce
Nogard
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