ABA CD ABAC. Following the rhyme scheme of the Villanelle, but with 5 extra couplets just after each tercet. Cinquain: "ababb". Clerihew: "aabb". Enclosed rhyme (aka enclosing rhyme): "abba". Ghazal: "aa ba ca da ..." Kural: Tamil verse form Limerick: "aabba". Monorhyme: an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic. ("aaaaa...") Rondelet: "AbAabbA". Rubaiyat: "aaba". Sapphics Seguidilla: Spanish-origin poem with seven syllable-counted lines, rhyming the second & fourth, and the fifth & seventh lines ("abcbded") Petrarchan sonnet: "abba abba cde cde" or "abba abba cdc cdc". Sestina: a complex French verse form, usually unrhymed, consisting of 6 stanzas of 6 lines each and a 3-line envoi. Shadorma: an allegedly Spanish six-line stanza, syllable-count restricted form, 3/5/3/3/7/5 Shakespearean sonnet: "abab cdcd efef gg". Simple 4-line: "abcb" Spenserian sonnet: "abab bcbc cdcd ee". Onegin stanzas: "" with lowercase letters representing assonant rhymes and the uppercase representing end-rhymes. Sprung rhythm: a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. Tanaga: traditional Tagalog tanaga is "aaaa" Terza rima: "aba bcb cdc ...", ending on "yzy z" or "yzy zz/" Types of rhyming A rhyme is the repetition of syllables, typically found at the end of a verse line. Assonance (aka vowel rhyme): the repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. Broken rhyme: a type of enjambment producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line Catalectic Acephalous line Chiasmus: repetition of any group of verse elements (including rhyme and grammatical structure) in reverse order. Consonance: the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different Alliteration: the repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Cross rhyme Holorime: identical pronunciation of different lines; in other words, when two entire lines have the same sound Imperfect rhyme (aka half or near rhyme) Monorhyme Pararhyme Perfect rhyme (aka full or exact rhyme) Syllabic Types of stanza A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. (cf. verse in music.) Alcaic: a 4-line stanza invented by the Classical Greek poet Alcaeus that uses a specific syllabic count per line and a predominantly dactylic meter. Ballad Biolet Burns Chaubola Cinquain Couplet: two successive rhyming lines ("aa"), usually of the same length (usually re-occurring as "aa bb