ABAB Rhyme Scheme
Published: August 2017
This collection contains poems that use the ABAB rhyme scheme. The ABAB rhyme scheme is where the ending words of lines one and three (A) rhyme with each other and the ending words of lines two and four (B) rhyme with each other.
19 Examples Of Poems That Use The ABAB Rhyme Scheme
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Invictus
Famous Poem
Out of the night that covers me,
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Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.Featured Shared StoryOnce I was a good student. I have always been an obedient and gentle person. Then I failed in my life for the first time in the year 2002. Something happened and I fell right from the top and...
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Friends
Famous Poem
How good to lie a little while
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And look up through the tree!
The Sky is like a kind big smile
Bent sweetly over me.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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A Psalm Of Life
Famous Poem
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
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Life is but an empty dream!—
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.Featured Shared StoryMy deceased husband introduced me to this poem 55 years ago, and I've always considered it a great gift.
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The Brook
Famous Poem
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
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I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.Featured Shared StoryI was read poetry to my mother born 1929 in faraway Colombo, Sri Lanka. She loved this poem, and I remember her animated voice bringing the words hidden in the babbling brook to life and the...
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A Nation's Strength
Famous Poem
What makes a nation's pillars high
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And its foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Dirge Without Music
Famous Poem
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
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So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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It Might Have Been
Famous Poem
We will be what we could be. Do not say,
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"It might have been, had not or that, or this."
No fate can keep us from the chosen way;
He only might who is.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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So Happy And So Proud
Thoughts of you surround me.
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You're the beating of my heart.
The love you give defines me.
My life is no longer dark.Featured Shared StoryI love you more than the words on paper can express. I can't live my life without you. You're my beautiful angel that keeps me looking up. You keep me from drowning. I live, breathe, and...
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I Love You
I never really knew you.
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You were just another friend,
But when I got to know you,
I let my heart unbend.Featured Shared StoryHonestly, the first time I read this, I was deeply struck. This resembled the time when I was moving on from my crush and then I fell for another girl, who was my friend. I never knew I would...
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My Angel, My Girlfriend
Some people believe there is one,
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The one who points your way to the sun.
A person they believe makes them complete,
The one who will support when facing defeat.Featured Shared StoryMy girlfriend's name is Fereshte, and she is in the hospital. We are far, far away because she lives in the city I used to live before. Right now we are thousands of kilometers away, but our...
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You
It's that look in your eye.
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It's the smile on your face
That makes time slip by,
And I know I'm in a better place.Featured Shared StoryThis is a great poem. I hope you write more!
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Sometimes I Dream That I Can Fly
Sometimes I dream that I can fly.
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I lift and flap my arms just so,
And soon I'm soaring to the sky.
Graceful like a bird I go.Featured Shared StoryThanks, Pat, for your poem. I love the feeling of movement your words create - they really transported me. And I also appreciate your honesty in dealing with the subject of finding and having...
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Best Friends
I promise to love you
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When your jokes are not funny.
I promise to love you
When you have no money.Featured Shared StoryThis poem I sent to my boyfriend, as it is just perfect for me and him.
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Just One Thing I Should Have Said
He is a friend to remember,
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A friend I miss so much.
I think about all the laughter
And even the times we'd touch.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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The One
Analysis of Form and Technique
The one who brought me down to earth
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And held me every day.
The one who gracefully gave me birth
And said, I love you in every way.Featured Shared StoryVery good usage of words. Rhyming pattern is good and the structure rocks. One of the best I've read so far. Keep on writing more!
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The Drifter's Melody
The time soon comes for parting,
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And our time is at an end.
The rest of your life is starting,
And we have no time at all to spend.Featured Shared StoryI'm moving away to a different country to start high school and continue my life. This means that I'll be leaving my best friend behind. We could talk over the internet, but I don't think...
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Forgiveness
Baby, you tell me you love me.
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You tell me you care.
You say you need to have me,
But all I can do is stare.Featured Shared StoryThe same thing as the first comment happened to me my girlfriend cheated on me but she is trying to prove herself to be remorseful and this poem has summed up how I feel perfectly and what's...
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Carnival
Skipping through the cool grass
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with eyes shining bright,
heart beating fast,
awaiting a magical night.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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My Sweet Savior
I felt so rejected, alone and sad,
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like an abandoned puppy left to wander a street.
It was then that I realized that my life was really bad,
so I disowned every challenge I happened to meet.Featured Shared StoryThis poem basically explains me and how I feel from deep down. It reminds me of the dark times before I recently got a girlfriend. When I first got my girlfriend it was like a whole different...
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