Poetry Sounds

At first, I thought rhyme was words that sounds the same, but I learned that rhyme is the repetition the sound of stressed vowel and any sounds that follow in word that are close together.

An example of a poem with end rhyme is below. The title is Shopping with a friend, and the author is Rita El Khoury. The rhyme scheme is AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, FF, GG, HH, JJ, KK, LL, MM.

Shopping with a friend is cool,

There's nothing forbidden, no rule

And no parents to say what's suitable

Or to tell you what's unaffordable,

Actually you don't need to be rich

To try on whatever your eyes wish.

Shopping with a friend is so nice

You might forget budget and price

And buy things you don't need

Just by habit, not by greed

Like get ten or eleven similar tops

From two or three different shops.

Shopping with a friend is funny

Even if you don't have money

You can try a formal blue shirt

With a long gypsy orange skirt

Pretend to buy them but act lost

Then don't, because they're low-cost.

Shopping with a friend is naughty

You can act humble or haughty

Change personnalities between stores:

Be a girl who laughs and snores

Or an english tourist, elegant and neat

Who went walking on the street.

But shopping is more pleasant with a friend

Who has a thousand dollars to lend.

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