Rhyme scheme
Okay kiddo, so when we talk about a rhyme scheme, we're really talking about how words in a poem rhyme with each other. It's like a game, where the poet tries to make the words at the end of each line sound the same.
Let's use the nursery rhyme "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" as an example. The first and second lines rhyme: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star / How I wonder what you are." The third and fourth lines rhyme: "Up above the world so high / Like a diamond in the sky."
So the rhyme scheme for this poem is "AA BB," which is like saying that the words that rhyme in the first and second lines are A, and the words that rhyme in the third and fourth lines are B.
Now, let's look at another poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. The first and third lines don't rhyme with any other lines in the poem, but the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other: "Whose woods these are I think I know / His house is in the village though / He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with snow."
So the rhyme scheme for this poem is "ABA ABA," which means that the words that rhyme in the second and fourth lines are A, and the words in the first and third lines don't rhyme with anything else.
Rhyme schemes can be different for each poem, which makes each poem unique and special. It's like a secret code that the poet is using to make the poem sound nice and pleasing to the ear.
Let's use the nursery rhyme "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" as an example. The first and second lines rhyme: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star / How I wonder what you are." The third and fourth lines rhyme: "Up above the world so high / Like a diamond in the sky."
So the rhyme scheme for this poem is "AA BB," which is like saying that the words that rhyme in the first and second lines are A, and the words that rhyme in the third and fourth lines are B.
Now, let's look at another poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. The first and third lines don't rhyme with any other lines in the poem, but the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other: "Whose woods these are I think I know / His house is in the village though / He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with snow."
So the rhyme scheme for this poem is "ABA ABA," which means that the words that rhyme in the second and fourth lines are A, and the words in the first and third lines don't rhyme with anything else.
Rhyme schemes can be different for each poem, which makes each poem unique and special. It's like a secret code that the poet is using to make the poem sound nice and pleasing to the ear.