Question

The rime scheme of a poem is scanned by assigning the same letter to each line that rimes with a previous line and going to the next letter of the alphabet when the rime changes. For example:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star = a

How I wonder what you are = a

Up above the world so high = b

“Like a diamond in the sky.” = b

By assigning a new letter each time the rime changes, scan the following poems and indicate their rime schemes in the blanks below.

“A tiny cry within the night"

A tiny cry within the night,
A mother’s touch, a gentle light,
a rocking chair, a cheek laeased,
A baby TV a bosin pressed,
A bundle lizn lot replaced,
Mother’s footstes soft, retraced,
She whispas as the shadows lreep…
“Now let me sleep! Please, let me sleep!!!”

"That time of year,”

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day

As after sunset fadeth in the west,

Which by and by black night doth take away,

Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.

In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,

As the death-bed whereon it must expire,

Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.

This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,

To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Answer 1

1. AA BB CC DD

A tiny cry within the night, a

A mother’s touch, a gentle light, a
a rocking chair, a cheek laeased, b
A baby TV a bosin pressed, b
A bundle lizn lot replaced, c
Mother’s footstes soft, retraced, c
She whispas as the shadows lreep… d
“Now let me sleep! Please, let me sleep d

2. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

That time of year thou mayst in me behold a

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang b

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, a

Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. b

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day c

As after sunset fadeth in the west, d

Which by and by black night doth take away, c

Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. d

In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire e

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, f

As the death-bed whereon it must expire, e

Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by. f

This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, g

To love that well which thou must leave ere long. g