Rhyme+and+Free+Verse

**__Rhyme (Poetic device)__** Poems might use rhyming words to make the poem more interesting. They are usually contain stanzas which are like poetic paragraphs. Each stanza is 4 lines.

Patterns: AABB Line 1 and 2 rhyme. Line 3 and 4 rhyme.

ABAB Line 1 and 3 rhyme. Line 2 and 4 rhyme.

AAAA All lines rhyme.

Examples:

AABB There once was a speckled frog, Sitting on a lumpy log, He was so pretty and so fat, That is, until the car came... SPLAT!

ABAB There was an old cow, So lazy and brown, We don't know quite how, <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">She got into town!

<span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">AAAA <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I really don't know if I would care <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If I were to meet a hairless bear, <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">But if I were to enter a darkened lair, <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I think I would run if I met with a pair.

<span style="color: #b6204c; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">__**Free Verse**__ <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">There really are no rules to how you write this. In free verse, punctuation and capitals are often omitted.

<span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Examples:**
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">__Technology__ **

**<span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Technology is a wonderful Use of time. **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">If it wasn’t for Technology, **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A lot **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Of kids Would be bored. **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">I like to use Technology **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">For many, many things, **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Like **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Going on the computer, Listening to radios **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">And many more things. **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">On the Computer **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">You can **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Search for things you do not Know, **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">You can **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write stories and poems, **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Also, **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">You can **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Have a good time **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Playing games and having Fun! **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">I like Technology! **

**<span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">__Bears__ **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Bears are **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">creatures that **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">slash their **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">mighty claws **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">to fish for **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">their prey **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">In the winter **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">they lie **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">like a rock **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">and wait **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">for the **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">dawn of spring **

<span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="color: #dd1313; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">YOUR ASSIGNMENT **
 * <span style="color: #e30d0d; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write one rhyme poem and one Free-verse poem. Each will be worth 5 points. **


 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">This link will help you find rhyming words: **
 * <span style="color: #b6204c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus] **