Question
is there rhyme in the poem "how i learned english"
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Rhyme is when successive lines of poetry end with the same sound. Here's an example. In the following poem, the even numbered lines rhyme. Read it out loud so you can hear the rhyming lines. Then ask yourself if anything similar happens in "How I Learned English."
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Not Waving but Drowning Launch Audio in a New Window
BY STEVIE SMITH
<I>Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay <b>moaning</b>:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but <b>drowning</b>.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s <b>dead</b>
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They <b>said</b>.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay <b>moaning</b>)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but <b>drowning</b>.</i>
Rhyme is when successive lines of poetry end with the same sound. Here's an example. In the following poem, the even numbered lines rhyme. Read it out loud so you can hear the rhyming lines. Then ask yourself if anything similar happens in "How I Learned English."
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Not Waving but Drowning Launch Audio in a New Window
BY STEVIE SMITH
<I>Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay <b>moaning</b>:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but <b>drowning</b>.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s <b>dead</b>
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They <b>said</b>.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay <b>moaning</b>)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but <b>drowning</b>.</i>