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rhyme scheme

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rhyme scheme
n.
The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza.


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Ghazal is a short monorhyme consisting of successive couplets whose lines all end with the same refrain phrase, thus they form a rhyme scheme of aa, ba, ca, etc.
Edmond Clerihew Bentley created the Clerihew, a four-line poem with an AABB rhyme scheme and an irregular rhythm.
Hall's rewritten text annihilates the original rhyme scheme, so that the relationship between words and music is always an uneasy one; that is part of the reason the performance plods rather than moves smoothly to its bloody denouement, despite Edward Gardner's promptings from the pit and the excellent orchestral playing he obtains.
 
 
 
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