Tuesday, June 16, 2009

21. Try Rhyme

Almost as simple are poems in rhymed couplets (two rhyming lines) or quatrains (four rhyming lines). If you use couplets, the last words in each line should rhyme.

I wish I could unLOCK
The secrets of a cLOCK.

If you use quatrains, you can rhyme just two of the four lines, or you can rhyme that last words in every line. Here is a quatrain in which only two lines are rhymed:

This morning, late for class, I skipped a
My cornflakes and, gung-ho, departed. b
Nice timing! I made history c
Before the Civil War got started b

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