What is Rhyme scheme?
A '''rhyme scheme''' is the [[pattern]] of [[rhyme]] between lines of a poem or song. People usually use letters to show which lines rhyme with which other lines. For example, in a poem that is ABAB, the first and third lines rhyme with each other and the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The most basic rhyme schemes are AA, AAA, AABB, ABAB and ABBA. There are also more complicated schemes, such as ABABBCC ([[rhyme royal]]),<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/rhyme-royal Rhyme royal.]</ref> ABABABCC ([[ottava rima]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/ottava-rima Ottava rima.]</ref> or ABABBBCBCC ([[Spenserian stanza]]).<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/Spenserian-stanza Spenserian stanza.]</ref> [[Sonnet]]s may have very different rhyme schemes, Italian (ABBA ABBA CDC DCD, ABBA ABBA CDE CDE, ABBA ABBA CDE EDC), French (ABBA ABBA CDCD EE), Spenserian (ABAB BCBC CDCD EE) or Shakesperian (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG).<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/sonnet Sonnet.]</ref> : ''Bid me to weep, and I will weep'' : ''While I have eyes to see;'' : ''And having none, yet I will keep'' : ''A heart to weep for thee.'' :: ''(Robert Herrick, To Anthea, who may Command him Anything)'', an ABAB rhyme scheme Sometimes there are also internal rhymes. In the following strophe from [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' there are rhymes and [[alliteration]]: : ''The fat breeze blew, the white foam flew,'' : ''The furrow followed free;'' : ''We were the first that ever burst'' : ''Into that silent sea.'' Some schemes are common, the other are used very rarely. The scheme AABBCC is simple and can be found everywhere, but the scheme ABCCBA, used by [[Robert Browning]] in the ''Meeting at Night'', was never popular: : ''The grey sea and the long black land;'' : ''And the yellow half-moon large and low;'' : ''And the startled little waves that leap'' : ''In fiery ringlets from their sleep,'' : ''As I gain the cove with pushing prow,'' : ''And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.'' There are m