Poems that rhyme form a significant part of the literature and entertainment. A rhyming poem stands out from ordinary free verse poems due to the fact that it possesses a certain tune to itself therefore a rhyming poem can be clearly defined as an array of words which are set to music while conveying an important message to the audience. Almost every creative thinker can assemble his thoughts into a set of words called a poem but it requires time, effort and talent equally for a person to create a rhyming poem.
While music in a pure form is widely used for entertainment , sometimes words maybe blended in by one or more vocalists, to create a form of entertainment called songs. There is a strong contrariness between songs and poems although few similarities could be seen such as the use of music to bring forth the required effect. Unlike songs, rhyming poems maintain a monotonous tune throughout the composition and lack variations made to the melody.
A rhyming poem can possess many characteristics that are advantageous in relaying a meaningful message. It is a highly captivating mode of entertainment where the admirers find utmost pleasure in listening to a tuneful composition while involuntarily making space for the message embedded in the poem to get rooted in their subconscious minds. Perhaps the major concept of the poem may be purely humour-intended with no underlying message. The words that are used in the body of the rhyming poem may not state the intention of the poem or the story entwined around the main intention explicitly.
Often the rhyming poems implicate a message or a tale in a more sophisticated manner compared to other versions of poems. A cause for this maybe the need to build a solid form of a tune rather than using words of poet’s choice to bring out the meaning directly which may hinder the rhyming nature.Another major factor of great concern is that the rhyming poems can be enjoyed by people from various walks of life regardless of any discrimination especially age. Even a little kid will appreciate a rhyming poem although unaware of the profound meaning. Rhyming poems will continue to be created by proficient poets and the audience will always revel in those.
Words that rhyme have the same ending sound. This is also called ending rhyme or perfect rhyme.
Examples of rhyming words are: said/bed, loud/crowd, fish/dish, to/flew
Examples of rhyming teaching poems include:
Who Lived in a Shoe? by Beatrix Potter
You know that old woman
Who lived in a shoe?
She had so many children
She didn’t know what do?
I think if she lived in
A little shoe-house
That little old lady was
Surely a mouse!
(This poem follows a rhyming pattern where the second and fourth lines in each stanza rhyme.)
The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
(In this poem, the ending words in each stanza all rhyme.)
I Eat My Peas with Honey by Anonymous
I eat my peas with honey;
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.
White Fields by James Stephens
In the winter children go
Walking in the fields of snow
Where there is not grass at all,
And the top of every wall,
Every fence, and every tree
Is as white as white can be.
Pointing out the way they came,
(Every one of them the same)
All across the fields there be
Prints in silver filigree;
And their mothers find them so
By the footprints in the snow.
While music in a pure form is widely used for entertainment , sometimes words maybe blended in by one or more vocalists, to create a form of entertainment called songs. There is a strong contrariness between songs and poems although few similarities could be seen such as the use of music to bring forth the required effect. Unlike songs, rhyming poems maintain a monotonous tune throughout the composition and lack variations made to the melody.
A rhyming poem can possess many characteristics that are advantageous in relaying a meaningful message. It is a highly captivating mode of entertainment where the admirers find utmost pleasure in listening to a tuneful composition while involuntarily making space for the message embedded in the poem to get rooted in their subconscious minds. Perhaps the major concept of the poem may be purely humour-intended with no underlying message. The words that are used in the body of the rhyming poem may not state the intention of the poem or the story entwined around the main intention explicitly.
Often the rhyming poems implicate a message or a tale in a more sophisticated manner compared to other versions of poems. A cause for this maybe the need to build a solid form of a tune rather than using words of poet’s choice to bring out the meaning directly which may hinder the rhyming nature.Another major factor of great concern is that the rhyming poems can be enjoyed by people from various walks of life regardless of any discrimination especially age. Even a little kid will appreciate a rhyming poem although unaware of the profound meaning. Rhyming poems will continue to be created by proficient poets and the audience will always revel in those.
Words that rhyme have the same ending sound. This is also called ending rhyme or perfect rhyme.
Examples of rhyming words are: said/bed, loud/crowd, fish/dish, to/flew
Examples of rhyming teaching poems include:
Who Lived in a Shoe? by Beatrix Potter
You know that old woman
Who lived in a shoe?
She had so many children
She didn’t know what do?
I think if she lived in
A little shoe-house
That little old lady was
Surely a mouse!
(This poem follows a rhyming pattern where the second and fourth lines in each stanza rhyme.)
The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
(In this poem, the ending words in each stanza all rhyme.)
I Eat My Peas with Honey by Anonymous
I eat my peas with honey;
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.
White Fields by James Stephens
In the winter children go
Walking in the fields of snow
Where there is not grass at all,
And the top of every wall,
Every fence, and every tree
Is as white as white can be.
Pointing out the way they came,
(Every one of them the same)
All across the fields there be
Prints in silver filigree;
And their mothers find them so
By the footprints in the snow.