2007-09-05 10:19:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales using rhyming couplets.
2007-09-05 10:30:35 · answer #1 · answered by Todd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rhyme scheme in question is called "rhymed couplets" and there are thousands of poems that fit. There are also longer lined poems that started out as rhymed couplets, only to become abcb...and others that started out as short lined abcb that were combined to make rhymed couplets.
A Ghazal has from five to fifteen rhyming couplets. Alexander Pope wrote in satirical verse in his Essay on Criticism (1709):
'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But of the two, less dangerous is the offence
To tire our patience than mislead our sense.
Some few in that but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;
A fool might once himself alone expose,
Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
There are many examples, this is but one.
2007-09-09 13:39:00 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't remember this stuff... what is happening to me brain?
A sonnet? Think so but do NOT know! Sorry.
2007-09-05 17:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋