Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme in English Poetry - Class VIII
Practice identifying rhyming words and understanding rhyme schemes in English poetry, including analysis of classic poems like 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Questions
Which of the words in the poem rhyme:
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
- remember, ember
- bleak, each
- remember, December
- Ah, And
Which of the words in the following lines rhyme:
I walked through life,
And all I'd done.
Wandering aimlessly,
Towards what I've become.
- life - done
- life - aimlessly
- done - become
- life - become
Which of the words in the poem rhyme:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
- dreary, weary
- weak, weary
- pondered, lore
- Once, Over
Which of the words in the poem rhyme:
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
- nodded, rapping
- nearly, napping
- napping, tapping, rapping
- nearly, gently
Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
choose, blue, hoof, cheese, cruise
- choose, cruise
- choose, cheese
- blue, hoof
- blue, cruise
Which of the words in the poem rhyme:
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
(The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
- sought, morrow
- morrow, borrow
- sorrow, Lenore
- sought, lost
Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
door, pour, more, four, snore
- door, pour
- pour, more
- snore, door
- All the words rhyme
Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
seen, rain, been, scene, mean
- rain, been
- rain, scene
- mean, scene
- seen, mean
Choose the best option with the pair of rhyming words:
- coupon, shun
- coupon, flaunt
- coupon, pawn
- coupon, blunt
Which of the pairs given are rhyming words?
Select the best option(s).
- bowl, howl
- bowl, sole
- bowl, mole
- bowl, foul
Which of the pairs given are rhyming words?
Select the best option.
- truth, fruit
- truth, crude
- truth, stood
- truth, tooth
Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
dazzle, puzzle, muscle, capable, reliable
- dazzle, capable
- puzzle, muscle
- capable, puzzle
- muscle, reliable
Which of the pairs given are rhyming words?
Select the best option.
- monk, stunk
- monk, chunk
- monk, flunk
- All the above
Choose which pair contains rhyming words:
- sour, floor
- sour, power
- sour, sore
- floor, flower
Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
ajar, care, dart, mark, star
- dart, mark
- ajar, star
- care, star
- care, mark
Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verses:
Better to see your cheek grown hollow,
Better to see your temple worn,
Than to forget to follow, follow,
After the sound of a silver horn.
Better to bind your brow with willow
And follow, follow until you die,
Than to sleep with your head on a golden pillow,
Nor lift it up when the hunt goes by.
- abab cdcd
- abba cddc
- abcd abcd
- adda cdcd
Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verses:
Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The nightingale does sit so late,
And studying all the summer night,
Her matchless songs does meditate;
Ye country comets, that portend
No war nor prince's funeral,
Shining unto no higher end
Than to presage the grass's fall;
- abba cddc
- abcd abcd
- abab cdcd
- abab cddc
Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem:
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
- abcd abcd
- abba cbbc
- abab cdcd
- abba cddc
Identify the rhyme scheme in the following verse:
Promise me no promises,
So I will not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?
- ababcdcd
- abbacddc
- abbacdcd
- abcdabcd
Identify the rhyme scheme in the following verse:
Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
- aabbcc
- abcabc
- ababcd
- abcabb
Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verses:
Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary,
Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
Without believing a word.
Tie the white fillets then about your hair
And think no more of what will come to pass
Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass
And chattering on the air.
- abba cddc
- abab cdcd
- abba cdcd
- aaabb ccdd
Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verse:
Let them buy your big eyes,
In the secret earth securely,
Your thin fingers and your fair,
Soft, indefinite-coloured hair,
All of these in some way, surely,
From the secret earth shall rise;
Not for these I sit and stare;
Broken and bereft completely:
Your young flesh that sat so neatly
On your little bones will sweetly
Blossom in the air.
- abccbbccbbc
- abccbacbbbc
- abbccabccbb
- abcabccbbcc
Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verse:
Stay, O sweet, and do not rise!
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not: it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
Stay! Or else my joys will die
And perish in their infancy.
- aabbcd
- aabcbc
- ababab
- abcabc
Which of the pairs given are rhyming words?
Select the best option.
- disguise, wise
- disguise, slice
- disguise, chastise
- disguise, hides