Rhyme Scheme Practice exercise with two poetic stanzas for identifying rhyme patterns.

Let’s solve each poem one line at a time to find the rhyme scheme.

Rhyme scheme means we look at the last word of each line and see which lines rhyme with each other. We give the first sound a letter “A”, the next new sound “B”, and so on. If a line rhymes with an earlier line, we reuse that same letter.

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Poem 3:

Line 1: “When I look into his eyes,” → ends with eyes
Line 2: “I see the deep blue sea.” → ends with sea
Line 3: “I hope my love never dies,” → ends with dies
Line 4: “That he’ll always be there for me.” → ends with me

Now check rhymes:

- “eyes” and “dies” rhyme → both get A
- “sea” and “me” rhyme → both get B

So the pattern is:
Line 1: A
Line 2: B
Line 3: A
Line 4: B

→ Rhyme scheme: ABAB

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Poem 4:

Line 1: “And here ends the saga” → ends with saga
Line 2: “Of writers who have grown.” → ends with grown
Line 3: “We’re successful authors,” → ends with authors
Line 4: “Now we will be unknown.” → ends with unknown

Check rhymes:

- “saga” — no other line ends with a matching sound → A
- “grown” and “unknown” rhyme → both get B
- “authors” — doesn’t rhyme with any other → C

Wait — let’s double-check:

Actually, “grown” and “unknown” do rhyme (both end with “own” sound).
“saga” and “authors” don’t rhyme with anything else.

So:

Line 1: saga → A
Line 2: grown → B
Line 3: authors → C
Line 4: unknown → B (because it rhymes with “grown”)

→ Rhyme scheme: ABCB

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Final Answer:
3. ABAB
4. ABCB