IXL | Label the rhyme scheme | 5th grade language arts

Complete the rhyme scheme.

When you and I were young, we knew

To shout and laugh, to work and play,

And night was partner to the day

In all our joys. So swift time flew.

From Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Retrospection"

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Complete the rhyme scheme.

And looking back along the past,

We know we needed all the strain

Of fear and doubt and strife and pain

To make us value peace, at last.

From Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Mistakes"

key idea

Some poets like to use rhyme to highlight a poem's rhythm or make it sound more musical. Rhyming words have endings that sound the same, like sing and king. Rhyming words are often found at the ends of lines in a poem. A poem's rhymes form a pattern called a rhyme scheme.

When you label a poem's rhyme scheme, you use letters to show how a poet uses rhymes. Start with the letter A. Then use the same letter for other words that rhyme with that word. Use a different letter for each new rhyme.

The way a crow	A	Always start with the letter A.
Shook down on me	B	Me does not rhyme with crow. Use a new letter: B.
The dust of snow	A	Snow rhymes with crow. Use the same letter: A.
From a hemlock tree	B	Tree rhymes with me. Use the same letter: B.

From Robert Frost, "Dust of Snow"

solution

The first two lines show how the rhyme scheme starts.

And looking back along the past,	A
We know we needed all the strain	B

Now look at the third line. Pain rhymes with the last word of the second line, strain. So, use the same letter: B.

Of fear and doubt and strife and pain

Look at the fourth line. Last rhymes with the last word of the first line, past. So, use the same letter: A.

To make us value peace, at last.

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