On the other hand, because rhyming couplets have such a predictable rhyme scheme, they can feel artificial and plodding.

Linguistic studies of the text's vocabulary and rhyme scheme point to a date of composition after the Shi Jing yet before the Zhuangzi.

Its rhyme scheme found in the first seven lines is repeated in the first seven lines of the second stanza.

Though the lines are interconnected, the rhyme scheme and line lengths are irregular.

The original lyrics authored by Wybicki were a poem consisting of six stanzas and a chorus repeated after all but last stanzas, all following an ABAB rhyme scheme.

The English ode's most common rhyme scheme is ABABCDECDE.

Some forms of poetry carry a consistent and well-defined rhyming scheme, such as the chant royal or the rubaiyat, while other poetic forms have variable rhyme schemes.

Most rhyme schemes are described using letters that correspond to sets of rhymes, so if the first, second and fourth lines of a quatrain rhyme with each other and the third line does not rhyme, the quatrain is said to have an " a-a-b-a " rhyme scheme.

This rhyme scheme is the one used, for example, in the rubaiyat form.

Among the most common forms of poetry through the ages is the sonnet, which by the 13th century was a poem of fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure.

Indeed, the term " Rubaiyat " by itself has come to be used to describe the quatrain rhyme scheme that FitzGerald used in his translations: AABA.

By the thirteenth century, it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.

The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g ; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

It employs the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d-c-d.

In traditional English-language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines ( as in distich / couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain / quintain, sestet ).

Less obvious manifestations of stanzaic form can be found as well, as in Shakespeare's sonnets, which, while printed as whole units in themselves, can be broken into stanzas with the same rhyme scheme followed by a final couplet, as in the example of Sonnet 116:

This resulted in the sestina being imported into France from Italy in the 16th century ; the first French poet to attempt the form, and the only one prior to the 19th century, was Pontus de Tyard who introduced a partial rhyme scheme.

The third, " Farewell, O sun, Arcadia's clearest light ", is evidently the first rhyming sestina in English: it is in iambic pentameter and follows the standard end-word scheme, but rhymes ababcc in the first stanza ( the rhyme scheme necessarily changes in each subsequent stanza, an interesting consequence of which is that the 6th stanza is inevitably in rhyming couplets ).

Most classic translations, including both Douglas and Dryden, employed a rhyme scheme, a very non-Roman convention that is not usually followed in modern versions.

A tercet may also form the separate halves of the ending sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet, where the rhyme scheme is abbaabba cdccdc, as in Longfellow's " Cross of Snow ".

Poems often involve a meter and / or rhyme scheme.

" Lerner said he knew the lyric used incorrect grammar for the sake of a rhyme.

Anglo-Saxon poets typically used alliterative verse, a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme, a tool which is used rather infrequently.

One example is " berk ", a mild pejorative widely used across the UK and not usually considered particularly offensive, although the origin lies in a contraction of " Berkeley Hunt ", as the rhyme for the significantly more offensive " cunt ".

The term " Charing Cross " for example ( a place in London ) has been used to mean " horse " since the mid-19th century but does not rhyme unless " cross " is pronounced to rhyme with " course ".

Further sources are the ' Phags-pa script based on the Tibetan alphabet, which was used to write several of the languages of the Mongol empire, including Chinese, and the Menggu Ziyun, a rhyme dictionary based on ' Phags-pa.

The term nursery rhyme is used for " traditional " poems for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the older ‘ Mother Goose Rhymes ’ is still often used.

Arabic language poets used rhyme extensively from the first development of literary Arabic in the sixth century, as in their long, rhyming qasidas.

Similarly, an " a-b-b-a " quatrain ( what is known as " enclosed rhyme ") is used in such forms as the Petrarchan sonnet.

Verse fables have used a variety of meter and rhyme patterns.

Old School flows were relatively basic and used only few syllables per bar, simple rhythmic patterns, and basic rhyming techniques and rhyme schemes.

A rhyme ( sometimes spelt rime ) is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs.

Tail rhyme was occasionally used, as in this piece of poetry by Cicero:

But tail rhyme was not used as a prominent structural feature of Latin poetry until it was introduced under the influence of local vernacular traditions in the early Middle Ages.

As a result, many early translators used rhyme and worked Sappho's ideas into English poetic forms.

There is a popular myth in Gloucester that the famous children's rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, is about a battering ram used in the siege of Gloucester in 1643, during the English Civil War.

The suggestion that Humpty Dumpty was a " tortoise " siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War, was put forward in 1956 by Professor David Daube in The Oxford Magazine of February 16, 1956, on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected.

From 1996 the website of the Colchester tourist board attributed the origin of the rhyme to a cannon recorded as used from the church of St Mary-at-the-Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648.

The rhyme has also been used as a reference in more serious literary works, including as a recurring motif of the Fall of Man in James Joyce's 1939 novel Finnegans Wake.

A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, a a a ; triplets are rather rare ; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.

But there is every reason to regard deal as a monosyllable, and because of the fact that /l/ commonly has the quality of AAb/ when it follows vowel sounds, deal seems to be a perfectly satisfactory rhyme with deal.

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

It is based on of long kacida ( poems ) single rhyme and the monotonous sound of the flute.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Generally the absent zee-rhyme is not missed, although some children use a zee pronunciation in the rhyme which they would not use elsewhere.

This aspect of bean digestion is the basis for the children's rhyme " Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit ".

The player who is selected at the conclusion of the rhyme is " it " or " out ".

* The rhyme structure is AABB ; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme, including the use of phrases in Latin, French and other non-English Languages

In some examples the meaning is further obscured by adding a second iteration of rhyme and truncation to the original rhymed phrase.

In the 2001 feature film Ocean's Eleven Don Cheadle uses the term " barney " and the claim is made that this rhyme is derived from Barney Rubble, (" trouble ") with references to a character from the Flintstones cartoon show.

In Australian slang the term for an English person is " pommy ", which has been proposed as a rhyme on " pomegranate " rhyming with " immigrant ".

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Free verse is a form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.

Poetry is esteemed, including extemporaneous rhyme competitions on given topics.

More important is the musical effect in which a smooth, rather swift forward movement is emphasized by the relation of grammatical structure to line and rhyme, yet is impeded and thrown back upon itself even from the beginning ".