What do the literary terms "rhyme" and "rhyme scheme" mean? How does rhyme help us to understand poetry? Poet-in-Residence David Biespiel answers these questions using an example from Emily Dickinson's poem "There's a certain Slant of light." The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to not only identify various kinds of rhymes (masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, slant rhyme, and so on) but also to analyze their structures and purposes.
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Timestamps
0:00 Rhyme Simple Definition
1:30 Rhyme Scheme Defined
2:02 Rhyme Scheme Example
3:09 Advanced Rhyming
Below are a few more videos in the series. Please drop us a comment letting us know what literary terms you would like us to explore in future videos!