3.3 Poem: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Learning Intentions In this section you will … ✓ Learn about rhyming schemes in poetry. ✓ Create a verse of poetry using a rhyming scheme.
POETRY Rhyming scheme
The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each line or stanza is known as the rhyming scheme. There are many different types of rhyming scheme. The rhyming scheme of a poem is usually shown by placing letters at the end of each line. Lines that rhyme have the same letter at the end in brackets. See below: Example: 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)
We can say that ‘Twinkle, twinkle…’ has an AABB rhyming scheme. This is because the words at the end of lines one and two rhyme with each other, as do the words at the end of lines three and four. We use the letters A, B, C, etc. to show which lines rhyme with each other.
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Before Reading and Listening
Look at the image which accompanies this poem. What does it make you think the poem is going to be about? Discuss this with your class.
