Question

Read the excerpt from “The Pobble Who Has No Toes” by Edward Lear. What is the rhyme scheme?

Answer 1

The rhyme scheme of the excerpt from “The Pobble Who Has No Toes” is ABAB CCDD. The answer is C.  

EXPLANATION:  

The rhyme scheme is a rhyme pattern which occurs at the end of each line of verse of the poetry. It can be said that the rhyme scheme is the structure of the end words of a line or verse which is created by the poet when writing the poem. Most of the poems are written in a freestyle rhyme scheme. The example is Haiku, the Japanese genre of a poem. Yet, other poems are written in a structural rhyme scheme.  

Here are several examples of the most popular rhyme schemes used by the poets:

• Alternate rhyme is a rhyme scheme which is well-known as ABAB. It rhymes “ABAB CDCD EFEF”

• Ballade is a rhyme scheme which contains three stanzas’ rhyme scheme as ABABBCBC and followed by BCBC

• Monorhyme is a rhyme scheme which is the same in every line or verse in a poem

• The couplet is a rhyme scheme which occurs as two-line stanzas with the “AA BB CC DD”

• Triplet is a rhyme scheme which repeats like a couplet, with the rhyme scheme “AAA”

• Enclosed rhyme is a rhyme scheme which uses rhyme “ABBA”

• Terza rima rhyme scheme uses three-line stanzas with an interlocking pattern such as “ABA BCB CDC and so on.”

• Keats Ode's rhyme scheme is a rhyme scheme which uses a specific rhyme scheme “ABABCDECDE”  

• Limerick is a five-lines poem with the rhyme scheme “AABBA”

• Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with five tercets and a final quatrain. Its rhyme scheme is “A1bA2, abA1, abA2, abA1, abA2, abA1A2.”

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KEYWORDS: rhyme scheme, rhyme scheme “The Pobble Who Has No Toes”, “The Pobble Who Has No Toes” rhyme scheme  

Subject: English

Class: 7-9

Sub-chapter: Rhyme Scheme  

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. abab ccdd

Explanation:

In poetry, the rhyme scheme refers to a general pattern of rhyme or repetition of sounds at the end of each line or verse and that can be identified by marking repeated sounds at the end of verses with the same alphabetical letter (a, b, c, etc.). In this way, lines that rhyme is marked with the same letter and letters follow alphabetical order. This implies in the case of the first stanza presented the scheme would be abab which is shown below

The Pobble who has no toes   A

Swam across the Bristol Channel;  B

But before he set out he wrapped his nose  A

In a piece of scarlet flannel B

In this way, the first and third verse marked with a letter A rhyme as "toes" and "nose" have the same final sound and in the case of the second and fourth verse marked with letter B the repetition of sound occurs in "channel" and "fannel". On the other hand in the case of the second stanza, the rhyme is ccdd as shown below

For his Aunt Jobiska said "No harm   C

Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;   C

And it's perfectly known that a Pobble's toes  D

Are safe,—provided he minds his nose!"  D

In this case, the first and second verse marked with letter C rhyme due to the repetition of sounds in "harm" and "warm" and the last two verses marked with letter D also rhyme due to "toes" and "noes". In this way, if you look at the letters marked in each verse according to rhyme you have the ABAB CCDD rhyme scheme in this poem.