Tail rhyme is a family of stanzaic verse forms used in poetry in French and especially English during and since the Middle Ages, and probably derived from models in medieval Latin versification.
You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme ...
With the help of schoolchildren, Nick Toczek performs his ‘The Dragon Who Ate Our School’, a rhyming poem that has a very distinctive pattern and metre. Students could discuss the poetic ...