• "The Rhyming Poem", also written as "The Riming Poem", is a poem of 87 lines found in the Exeter Book, a tenth-century collection of Old English poetry...
    3 KB (428 words) - 04:52, 27 June 2023
  • this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. More...
    37 KB (4,845 words) - 19:38, 12 October 2024
  • to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea...
    13 KB (1,810 words) - 04:08, 30 July 2024
  • result in masculine or feminine rhymes. Poems often arrange their lines in patterns of masculine and feminine endings. The distinction of masculine vs. feminine...
    11 KB (1,277 words) - 04:06, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poetry
    Poetry (redirect from Poem)
    in the richness of their rhyming structures; Italian, for example, has a rich rhyming structure permitting maintenance of a limited set of rhymes throughout...
    108 KB (12,611 words) - 00:36, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Road Not Taken
    "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, and later published as the...
    11 KB (1,111 words) - 20:58, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Lamb (poem)
    this poem appears to consist of rhyming couplets, and the first and last couplet in the first stanza could be said to exhibit identical rhyme; however...
    8 KB (925 words) - 15:36, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Endymion (poem)
    poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter...
    8 KB (1,094 words) - 02:35, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Burma-Shave
    gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs. Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company in Minneapolis...
    18 KB (2,325 words) - 01:35, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Queen of Hearts (poem)
    "The Queen of Hearts" is an English poem and nursery rhyme based on the characters found on playing cards, by an anonymous author, originally published...
    8 KB (940 words) - 11:28, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Raven
    Dickens. Poe based the complex rhythm and meter on Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" and made use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration...
    43 KB (5,593 words) - 05:28, 22 October 2024
  • The awit (Tagalog for "song") is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of 12-syllable quatrains. It follows the pattern of rhyming stanzas[which?] established...
    2 KB (140 words) - 04:49, 2 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nursery rhyme
    nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early...
    22 KB (2,067 words) - 05:45, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Star Gauge
    000 smaller rhyming poems. The outer border forms a single circular poem, thought to be both the first and the longest of its kind. The Star Gauge consists...
    6 KB (752 words) - 03:03, 1 October 2024
  • Davies' first anthology Collected Poems by the same publisher in 1916. The poem is written as a set of seven rhyming couplets. What is this life if, full...
    5 KB (656 words) - 15:12, 25 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fire and Ice (poem)
    notes that, like the downward funnel of the rings of Hell, the poem narrows considerably in the last two lines. Additionally, the rhyme scheme—ABA ABC BCB—he...
    9 KB (970 words) - 13:13, 27 September 2024
  • verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme, with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme (another...
    11 KB (1,209 words) - 20:42, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lacnunga
    seventh-century Irish poem, also preserved in other manuscripts, is a member of the lorica genre of protective prayers. This instance takes the form of an extended...
    5 KB (570 words) - 15:54, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cædmon's Hymn
    Cædmon's Hymn (redirect from Hymn (poem))
    honour of God the Creator. The poem is Cædmon's only known composition. The poem has a claim to being the oldest surviving English poem: if Bede's account...
    33 KB (3,454 words) - 05:57, 19 September 2024
  • following artists as exemplifying the increased complexity in rhyming, including use of multisyllabic rhyming: “members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, AZ, Big Pun...
    7 KB (862 words) - 05:52, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Limerick (poetry)
    of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth...
    16 KB (1,942 words) - 16:46, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roses Are Red
    Roses Are Red (category Love poems)
    "Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and...
    6 KB (630 words) - 10:24, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for My Last Duchess
    My Last Duchess (category British poems)
    Lyrics. The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (heroic couplet). In the first edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the poem was merely...
    10 KB (1,244 words) - 22:47, 20 July 2024
  • anonymously. The title neglected to capitalize "street." The humorous poem of four rhyming couplets tells savvy people interested in gaining wealth to avoid...
    53 KB (7,677 words) - 00:40, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Krummi svaf í klettagjá
    klettagjá" is a traditional Icelandic rhyming poem by Jón Thoroddsen about a raven. The poem was written in the middle of the 19th century and is in 6 line stanzas...
    2 KB (155 words) - 12:51, 6 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bede's Death Song
    is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It is, by far, the Old English poem that...
    6 KB (811 words) - 03:27, 8 September 2024
  • Norwegian Rune Poem is preserved in skaldic metre, featuring the first line exhibiting a "(rune name)(copula) X" pattern, followed by a second rhyming line providing...
    11 KB (976 words) - 20:23, 19 September 2024
  • with a rhyming pattern ABA BCB CDC. Another is the virelai ancien, which rhymes AABAAB BBCBBC CCDCCD. Other verse forms may also use chain rhyme. For instance...
    4 KB (667 words) - 14:40, 13 October 2024
  • Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in...
    14 KB (1,792 words) - 10:54, 8 July 2024
  • students in Gracie Graves's classroom using rhyming poems which are accompanied by drawings. Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402 received mixed reviews...
    10 KB (1,131 words) - 08:53, 8 April 2024