--- title: Poetry: rhyme and rhythm — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm», a lesson of the english course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, like wall and fall in the old nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / Poetry: rhyme and rhythm # Poetry: rhyme and rhythm Lesson 45 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/0/) — Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, like wall and fall in the old nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall"; rhymes click together like puzzle pieces and make lines easy to remember. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/1/) — Rhythm is the beat of a line, the pattern of strong and weak sounds you can clap: "HICK-o-ry, DICK-o-ry, DOCK, the MOUSE ran UP the CLOCK" has a beat you can march to, just like a drum. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/2/) — Rhythm can match the meaning: Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem goes "Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches", and the quick beat rattles along like wheels on a track, while a sad poem is read slowly and softly. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/3/) — A rhyme must still make sense: "The sea is blue, I like a shoe" rhymes, but the shoe wandered in only for the sound; good poets choose the meaning first and hunt for a rhyme that fits it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/4/) — Rhyme depends on accent: a Glasgow boy says "'Bath' doesnae rhyme wi' 'laugh' for me, Miss" ("doesnae" is doesn't), because in Scotland and the North bath has a short a, while in much of the South of England it rhymes with laugh; and not every poem rhymes at all, while rap is poetry with a heavy beat. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/5/) — Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, such as wall and fall, or dock and clock. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/6/) — Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one reason nursery rhymes have lasted hundreds of years. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/7/) — Rhythm is the pattern of beats in a line, made by strong and weak syllables; clapping helps you feel it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/9/) — Rhymes can come at the ends of lines or inside a line, as in "Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle" (internal rhyme). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/10/) — A rhyme pattern can be shown with letters: lines that rhyme get the same letter, so a verse where lines 1 and 2 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme is AABB. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/11/) — Whether two words rhyme can depend on accent: bath and laugh rhyme in much of southern England but not in the North or in Scotland. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/12/) — Some words have few or no perfect rhymes, such as orange, month and the Australian word arvo (afternoon); poets can use a near rhyme or put the word in the middle of a line. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/13/) — Free verse is poetry without a regular rhyme or beat; it uses line breaks and images instead. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/14/) — Rap uses rhythm, rhyme and wordplay, so it is a kind of poetry. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/15/) — A rhyming dictionary lists words by their sounds; poets have used them for centuries, and choosing the right rhyme is still the poet's job. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/16/) — "From a Railway Carriage", the train poem, was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1885; "No cap" in slang means "for real". - ← previous: [Writing to inform, instruct and persuade](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/) - next →: [Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/)