Rhyme

At first, I thought rhyme was words that sound alike, but I learned that rhyme is the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all subsequent sounds in a word.

An example of a poem with end rhyme is below. The title is Seek Not My Heart, and the author is Kit McCallum. The rhyme scheme is aabbccddeeffaagghhii.

Oh gentle winds 'neath moonlit skies,
Do not you hear my heartfelt cries?

Below the branches, here about,
Do not you sense my fear and doubt?
Side glistening rivers, sparkling streams,
Do not you hear my woeful screams?

Upon the meadows, touched with dew,
Do not you see my hearts a'skew?
Beneath the thousand twinkling stars,
Do not you feel my jagged scars?

Seek not my mournful heart kind breeze,
For you'll not find it 'mongst these trees.

It's scattered 'cross the moonlit skies,
Accompanied by heartfelt sighs.
It's drifting o're the gentle rain,
A symbol of my silent pain.

It's buried 'neath the meadow fair,
Conjoined with all the sorrow there.
It's lost among the stars this night,
Too far to ease my quiet fright.

No gentle winds, seek not my heart,
For simply ... it has torn apart.

On my poetry pretest, I don’t know what my grade-level was. On my posttest, I hope that I will be at the least a C or B grade-level.