ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -One type of poem that has an ABAB rhyme scheme is the Shakespearean sonnet. One such example is Sonnet 18, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.” “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Detailed explanation-2: -Venus and Adonis stanza, a stanza consisting of an iambic pentameter quatrain and couplet with the rhyme scheme ababcc. The stanza was so called because it was used by William Shakespeare in his poem Venus and Adonis (1593).

Detailed explanation-3: -’Sand’ rhymes with ‘land, ’ and ‘way’ rhymes with ‘day. ‘ Sometimes in ABAB poems, the rhyme scheme will continue throughout the entire poem, but sometimes the exact rhyme will change between stanzas. If you wrote the rhyme scheme out for this poem, it would be ‘ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.

Detailed explanation-4: -A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.