The ABAB rhyme scheme means that for every four lines, the first and third lines will rhyme with each other and the second and fourth lines will also rhyme with each other.
A four-line stanza, often with various rhyme schemes, including: -ABAC or ABCB (known as unbounded or ballad quatrain), as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” or “Sadie and Maud” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
ABAB Rhyme Scheme in Shakespearean Sonnets. One type of poem that has an ABAB rhyme scheme is the Shakespearean sonnet. A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains (three sets of four lines) and an ending couplet (two lines). Each quatrain has an ABAB rhyme scheme. The two lines in the couplet rhyme.
-Masculine rhyme describes those rhymes ending in a stressed syllable, such as “hells” and “bells.” It is the most common type of rhyme in English poetry.
There are many words that have no rhyme in the English language. "Orange" is only the most famous. Other words that have no rhyme include: silver, purple, month, ninth, pint, wolf, opus, dangerous, marathon and discombobulate.
What Is a Quintain? A quintain (also known as a quintet) is any poetic form or stanza that contains five lines.
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (often these sounds are exactly the same) in the final syllable of two or more words.
A poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or unrhymed.
Unlike in the AABB scheme where every two lines gives a form of completion and rhyme at their end, the ABAB scheme gives an equal stability effect while making the four lines sound like one group together.
And so, in English poetry, where we define rhyming as the repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a line, we organize those end rhymes into patterns or schemes, called rhyme schemes. You've heard of them. A rhyme scheme is made of the pattern of end rhymes in a stanza. That's it.
Perfect Rhyme
Perfect rhyme means that both the ending consonants (if any) and stressed vowel sounds of two words match exactly. Examples of perfect rhyme are: well, sell; chase, face; saw, flaw; form, dorm.
In the specific sense, two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical; two lines of poetry rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words. Examples are sight and flight, deign and gain, madness and sadness, love and dove.
A rhyming couplet is made up of two lines of verse which rhyme with one another. The two lines of a rhyming couplet usually come together to form one complete thought or idea. They're a common feature in many forms of poetry, including as sonnets and limericks.
half rhyme, also called near rhyme, slant rhyme, or oblique rhyme, in prosody, two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common (such as stopped and wept, or parable and shell).
A Rhyming Couplet is two line of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought.
The pattern of rhymes in a poem is written with the letters a, b, c, d, etc. The first set of lines that rhyme at the end are marked with a. The second set are marked with b. So, in a poem with the rhyme scheme abab, the first line rhymes with the third line, and the second line rhymes with the fourth line.
The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables. It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in trochees in languages with a stress accent.
The AAAA rhyme scheme is a scheme in which every line rhymes. A great example of this type of rhyme can be found in the verses of “Hello” by Adele. This type of rhyme scheme can also be found in songs with more than 4 lines in a verse or chorus.