RHYME SCHEME of this POEM (EASY)?

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i need to find the rhyme scheme of this poem





Cloony The Clown by Shel Silverstein


I%26#039;ll tell you the story of Cloony the Clown


Who worked in a circus that came through town.


His shoes were too big and his hat was too small,


But he just wasn%26#039;t, just wasn%26#039;t funny at all.


He had a trombone to play loud silly tunes,


He had a green dog and a thousand balloons.


He was floppy and sloppy and skinny and tall,


But he just wasn%26#039;t, just wasn%26#039;t funny at all.


And every time he did a trick,


Everyone felt a little sick.


And every time he told a joke,


Folks sighed as if their hearts were broke.


And every time he lost a shoe,


Everyone looked awfully blue.


And every time he stood on his head,


Everyone screamed, %26quot;Go back to bed!%26quot;


And every time he made a leap,


Everybody fell asleep.


And every time he ate his tie,


Everyone began to cry.


And Cloony could not make any money


Simply because he was not funny.


One day he said, %26quot;I%26#039;ll tell this town


How it feels to be an unfunny clown.%26quot;


And he told them all why he looked so sad,


And he told them all why he felt so bad.


He told of Pain and Rain and Cold,


He told of Darkness in his soul,


And after he finished his tale of woe,


Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no,


They laughed until they shook the trees


With %26quot;Hah-Hah-Hahs%26quot; and %26quot;Hee-Hee-Hees.%26quot;


They laughed with howls and yowls and shrieks,


They laughed all day, they laughed all week,


They laughed until they had a fit,


They laughed until their jackets split.


The laughter spread for miles around


To every city, every town,


Over mountains, %26#039;cross the sea,


From Saint Tropez to Mun San Nee.


And soon the whole world rang with laughter,


Lasting till forever after,


While Cloony stood in the circus tent,


With his head drooped low and his shoulders bent.


And he said,%26quot;THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT -


I%26#039;M FUNNY JUST BY ACCIDENT.%26quot;


And while the world laughed outside.


Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.

RHYME SCHEME of this POEM (EASY)?
Hon this is one of my favorite poems. Many years ago, I was a professional circus clown. Anyway - just look at the pattern. The first two lines rhyme == That makes it AA the second two rhyme that is BB and so forth. It is done in quatrains of two rhyming lines. Very simple. Nothing real complicated about Shel. He was a rhyming fool. LOL ... Thanks for your note- just call me Persi and feel free to e mail me anytime. Pax - C.
Reply:When will the world realise that clowns are evil mean creatures?
Reply:Finding the rhyme scheme of a poem like this is really easy. I will explain it and then do a different poem as an example.





Basically, you just use the letters of the alphabet in their order: A, B, C, D, etc..





You go to the first line of the poem, and that automatically gets the letter A. Any other lines that end in a word which rhymes with the last word of the first line also get an A. Jot the A down on a piece of paper, or if you are using a textbook, write it really softly (so you can erase it when done) at the end of the line by your word.





Then you go on to the next line. If the word at the end rhymes with the A word, it gets an A, too. If it does not, you assign the letter B to it. All the last words of lines that rhyme with the word which is assigned the letter B also get a B.





Move on to the next line. If the last word rhymes with your A word, it gets and A. If it rhymes with your B word, it gets a B, and if it is a new rhyme, it gets a C.





You just work through the whole poem that way. If the poem is broken into stanzas, which are like little paragraphs, and which are separated by a line, you start over with the A again on each new stanza. If the poem is just one long work, with no separate stanzas, you just keep going and use up more letters of the alphabet.





I will do the rhyme scheme for another poem so that you can see how it is done. Then you can take my example and apply it to your assigned poem. I will put the letters for the rhyme scheme in parentheses so you can see that they aren%26#039;t part of the poem.











%26quot;Spring and Fall%26quot;





To a young child





Margaret, are you grieving (A)


Over Goldengrove unleaving? (A)


Leaves, like the things of man, you (B)


With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? (B)


Ah! as the heart grows older (C)


It will come to such sights colder (C)


By and by, nor spare a sigh (D)


Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; (D)


And yet you will weep know why. (D)


Now no matter, child, the name: (E)


Sorrow%26#039;s springs are the same. (E)


Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed (F)


What heart heard of, ghost guessed: (F)


It is the blight man was born for, (G)


It is Margaret you mourn for. (G)





(By Gerard Manley Hopkins--1880)





So, as you can see from my tracking the rhyme scheme, the scheme for the above poem goes like this:


A


A


B


B


C


C


D


D


D


E


E


F


F


G


G





I hope that helps.
Reply:aa, bb, cc, bb, dd etc. couplets
Reply:AA- Lines 1 %26amp; 2


BB- Lines 3 %26amp; 4


CC-Lines 5 %26amp; 6


DD-Lines 7%26amp; 8...etc.





It goes this way for the entire poem.




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