Rhyme Scheme is the way we identify the end rhyme pattern of a poem. In order to understand it, all you have to do is look at the last words of each line. If you choose to use rhyming in your poetry, here are the rules:
1. Using the letters of the alphabet, assign the first letter (A), to the last word of the first line.
2 . Look at the last word of the second line. If it rhymes with the last word in the line above, it gets the same letter, if it doesn't rhyme with the word above, it gets a new letter (the next one in the alphabet).
3. Continue the process described in #2 throughout the whole poem. Be sure to look at all the lines above to see if the last word of the line you are working on rhymes with any of the last words above.
Horribly Cheesy Example :):
Roses are red ( red gets "A" because it is the first rhyming word)
Violets are blue ( blue gets "B" because it does not rhyme with red )
End rhyme scheme is fun ( fun gets "C" because it doesn't rhyme with red or blue )
And so are you ! ( you gets "B" because it rhymes with blue )
So, the end rhyme scheme is: A, B, C, B
Figure out the end rhyme scheme of the following poem.
Dust of Snow
by Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
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 .
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year .
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake .
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake .
The woods are lovely, dark and deep ,
But I have promises to keep ,
And miles to go before I sleep ,
And miles to go before I sleep .
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