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எங்கள் ஆசிரியர்களுடன் 1-ஆன்-1 ஆலோசனை நேரத்தைப் பெறுங்கள். டாப்பர் ஆவதற்கு நாங்கள் பயிற்சி அளிப்போம்

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The pattern of rhymes at the ending of each line in a poem is called a rhyme scheme. Letters (A,B,C...) are usually used to express which lines rhyme. Verses that are designated with the same letter are said to rhyme with each other. It is also known as an arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem.
Example:
For an easier understanding of the concept, let us take a famous nursery rhyme written by Jane Taylor as an example.
 
Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
 
We see that the first two lines rhyme with each other (star-are); the second two lines rhyme with each other (high-sky). Let us name each line as \(A\), \(B\) depending on the words that rhyme with each other.
 
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
 
It can thus be seen that this poem follows \(AABB\) pattern.
Rhyme scheme of the poem "For Anne Gregory":
Never shall a young man\(A\)
Thrown into despairB
By those great honey-coloured,C
Ramparts at your ear,B
Love you for yourself aloneD
And not your yellow hairB
 
“But I can get a hair-dye\(A\)
And set such colour there,B
Brown, or black, or carrot,C
That young men in despairB
May love me for myself aloneD
And not my yellow hair.”B
 
“I heard an old religious man\(A\)
But yesternight declareB
That he had found a text to proveC
That only God, my dear,B
Could love you for yourself aloneD
And not your yellow hair.”B
 
It can thus be seen that this poem follows \(ABCBDB\) pattern.