• Source: Enclosed rhyme

Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme) is the rhyme scheme ABBA (that is, where the first and fourth lines, and the second and third lines rhyme). Enclosed-rhyme quatrains are used in introverted quatrains, as in the first two stanzas of Petrarchan sonnets.




Example



(From John Milton: "Sonnet VII")

"Exposure", by Wilfred Owen, also has an example of enclosed rhyme. Each of the eight stanzas have the ABBA half rhyming sequence:




References






See also


Rhyme scheme

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• Enclosed rhyme
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• Abba (disambiguation)
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