<Dl> <Dd> </Dd> <Dd> </Dd> <Dd> </Dd> <Dd> </Dd> </Dl> <P> A basic distinction is between rhyme schemes that apply to a single stanza, and those that continue their pattern throughout an entire poem (see chain rhyme). There are also more elaborate related forms, like the sestina--which requires repetition of exact words in a complex pattern . It is not a must to have the same ryhme scheme, it can be abcd, so it can be different . </P> <Ul> <Li> Alternate rhyme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH...</Li> <Li> Ballade: Three stanzas of "ABABBCBC" followed by "BCBC". </Li> <Li> Boy Named Sue: A, A, B, C, C, (B, or infrequently D). </Li> <Li> Chant royal: Five stanzas of "ababccddedE" followed by either "ddedE" or "ccddedE". (The capital letters indicate a line repeated verbatim .) </Li> <Li> Cinquain: "A, B, A, B, B" </Li> <Li> Clerihew: "A, A, B, B" </Li> <Li> Couplet: "A, A", but usually occurs as "A, A, B, BC, CD, D ..." </Li> <Li> Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme): "ABBA" </Li> <Li> For 2 / 14: Canopus: "ABABCBC" - (this example is also an acrostic poem). </Li> <Li> "Fire and Ice" stanza: "ABAABCBCB" as used in Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" </Li> <Li> Keatsian Ode: "ABABCDECDE" used in Keats' Ode on Indolence, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and Ode to a Nightingale . </Li> <Li> Limerick: "AABBA" </Li> <Li> Monorhyme: "A, A, A, A, A ...", an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic </Li> <Li> Onegin stanzas: "aBaBccDDeFFeGG" with the lowercase letters representing feminine rhymes and the uppercase representing masculine rhymes, written in iambic tetrameter </Li> <Li> Ottava rima: "A, B, A, B, A, B, C, C" </Li> <Li> Quatrains: A, A, B, B or A, B, C, B </Li> <Li> The Raven stanza: "ABCBBB", or "AA, B, CC, CB, B, B" when accounting for internal rhyme, as used by Edgar Allan Poe in "The Raven" </Li> <Li> Rhyme royal: "ABABBCC" </Li> <Li> The Road Not Taken stanza: "ABAAB" as used in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, and in Glæde over Danmark by Poul Martin Møller (English translation here). </Li> <Li> Rondeau: "ABaAabAB" </Li> <Li> Rondelet: "AbAabbA" </Li> <Li> Rubaiyat: "AABA" </Li> <Li> Scottish stanza: "AAABAB", as used by Robert Burns in works such as "To a Mouse" </Li> <Li> Sestina: ABCDEF FAEBDC CFDABE ECBFAD DEACFB BDFECA, the seventh stanza is a tercet where line 1 has A in it but ends with D, line 2 has B in it but ends with E, line 3 has C in it but ends with F </Li> <Li> Simple 4 - line: "ABCB" </Li> <Li> Sonnet ABAB CDCD EFEF GG <Ul> <Li> Petrarchan sonnet: "ABBA ABBA CDE CDE" or "ABBA ABBA CDC DCD" </Li> <Li> Shakespearean sonnet: "ABAB CDCD EFEF GG" </Li> <Li> Spenserian sonnet: "ABAB BCBC CDCD EE" </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Spenserian stanza: "ABABBCBCC", where the last line is an alexandrine line </Li> <Li> Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening form: "AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD" a modified Ruba'i stanza used by Robert Frost for the eponymous poem . </Li> <Li> Tanaga: traditional Tagalog tanaga is "AAAA" </Li> <Li> Tercets: A, A, A or A, B, A </Li> <Li> Terza rima: "ABA BCB CDC ...", ending on "YZY Z", "YZY ZZ", or "YZY ZYZ". </Li> <Li> Triplet: "AAA", often repeating like the couplet . </Li> <Li> Villanelle: A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2 abA1A2, where A1 and A2 are lines repeated exactly which rhyme with the a lines . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Alternate rhyme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH...</Li>

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