Rhyme scheme checker
Paste a poem or lyrics. Every line gets a letter, and lines that end on the same sound share it.
Questions
- What is a rhyme scheme?
- A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the ends of a poem's lines. Each new end sound gets the next letter, so a four-line stanza where lines 1 and 3 rhyme and 2 and 4 rhyme is ABAB.
- What are the common rhyme schemes?
- Couplets (AABB), alternate rhyme (ABAB), enclosed rhyme (ABBA), the ballad stanza (ABCB), terza rima (ABA BCB CDC) and the Shakespearean sonnet (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG).
- What does "near" mean in the results?
- The line ends on the same vowel sounds as an earlier line but different consonants, like "home" and "alone". Songwriters use these slant rhymes all the time.
- How does the checker decide two lines rhyme?
- It looks up the last word of each line in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary and compares the sounds from the last stressed vowel to the end. Words it does not know are compared by spelling.