Poetry Sounds

At first, I thought rhyme was words that sounded alike, but I learned that rhyme is the repetion of the sound of the stressed vowel and any sounds that follow i words that are close together.

An example of a poem with end rhyme is below. The title is "Could You Be The One For Me", and the author is someone called Lovebug. The rhyme scheme is ABAB.

On my poetry pretest, I was below grade-level. On my posttest, I hope that I will be at grade-level.



Could You Be The One For Me?
by LoveBug
Could you be the one for me?
Could you be my find?
Could it be, after all this time,
Fate is going to be kind?

Could you be the one for me,
The one to help me forget
The man that broke my heart, my soul
The man that haunts me yet?

You tell me that I'm beautiful
Something I've never heard
But the one still lives here in my mind
That couldn't spare a kind word

It's going to be hard to forget
And pick up the pieces he left
Could you be the one to teach
How to love again and forget?

Could you be the one to come
And mend my broken heart?
Are you willing to piece together
What another broke apart?

It won't be an easy job, you see
My road has been long and rough
And the heart that was once so soft
Is now shut, locked, and tough

But I can feel my heart open again
It's opening for you
Just come in, and love me back
That's all you have to do

I must ask you one small thing
Before we kiss and part
Please be nice and kind to me
I'm tired of broken hearts