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Let’s Learn About Rhyming
And
Rhyme Scheme!
Discovering Rhyme
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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, Twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are?
Which words make them rhyme?
Twinkle, Twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are?
Which words make them rhyme?
Twinkle, 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
Which words make them 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!”
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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