Lets Learn About Rhyming And Rhyme Scheme Discovering

Let’s Learn About Rhyming And Rhyme Scheme!

Discovering Rhyme 1 2 3 LG: To identify rhyming patterns Read through the Rhyme powerpoint (starts on the next slide). Draw and complete the T-chart (on the last slide) Complete the organisers to show your understanding of rhyme patterns. Then write your own and highlight the rhyme pattern. © Auburn Primary School adapted from Lane Clark

When two words end in the same sound they ‘rhyme’.

Do these lines of poetry rhyme? Twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are?

Which words make them rhyme? Twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are?

Do these lines of poetry rhyme? I must follow in their train Down the crooked fairy lane

Which words make them rhyme? I must follow in their train Down the crooked fairy lane

When two lines of poetry rhyme in a row, it’s called a COUPLET

Example of a Couplet Poem Way down South where bananas grow, A grasshopper stepped on an elephant’s toe The elephant said, with tears in his eyes, “Pick on somebody your own size!”

Do these lines rhyme? A peanut sat on the railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter Along came a train– Toot, toot!– peanut butter!

Which words make them rhyme? A peanut sat on the railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter Along came a train– Toot, toot!– peanut butter!

Do these lines rhyme? A peanut sat on the railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter Along came a train– Toot, toot!– peanut butter!

Do these lines rhyme? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low.

What words make them rhyme? I toss the branches up and down And shake them to and fro, I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown And send them high and low.

When four lines have an alternating rhyme pattern, it’s called a QUATRAIN

An example of a Quatrain Poem The Sleepy Giant My age is three hundred and seventy-two And I think, with the deepest regret, How I used to pick up and voraciously chew The dear little boys whom I met.

I’ve eaten them raw, in their holiday suits; I’ve eaten them curried with rice; I’ve eaten them baked, in their jackets and boots, And found them exceedingly nice. But now that my jaws are too weak for such fare, I think it exceedingly rude to do such a thing, when I’m quite well aware Little boys do not like to be chewed.

And so I contentedly live upon eels, And try to do nothing amiss, And I pass all the time I can spare from my meals In innocent slumber– like this.

When an author sets up a poem so that certain lines rhyme with each other, it is called a RHYME SCHEME

A ‘rhyme scheme’ is a way of describing the pattern of end rhymes. Each new end sound is assigned a different letter. Lines that end in the same sound are assigned the same letter. The first line of a rhyming poem is always assigned A.

Let’s Review. A Couplet is a pair of rhymed lines

A Quatrain is a set of four lines with alternating rhymes.

A Rhyme Scheme is a pattern of rhymes in a poem.

A Rhyme Scheme is a pattern of rhymes in a poem. And we figure it out by assigning letters of the alphabet to sets of rhyming lines.

Here are three slightly different cat poems, each with a different rhyme scheme. The first is AABB, the second is ABAB, and the third is ABCB):

My cat is nice. My cat likes mice. My cat is fat. I like my cat. A A B B

My cat is nice. My cat is fat. My cat likes mice. I like my cat. A B

My cat is gray. My cat is fat. My cat is cute. I like my cat. A B C B This is a different rhyme scheme than the others you have seen. Notice it is ABCB. Only the second and fourth lines rhyme.

Mary had a little lamb Whose Fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. This rhyme scheme is also ABCB. Only the second and fourth lines rhyme. A B C B