I have a bit of an introduction to this poem and I know you're probably worried I'm going to talk forever, but worry not. What I am about to read is a sonnet so it is a short 16 or 18 lines ...

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 ...

Limericks Limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern. In a limerick the first, second and fifth lines have the same rhythm and rhyme. The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other too.

These sonnets don’t have all the elements of typical sonnets, such as rhyme and meter, but they have the usual 14 lines and a volta, or turn, in the penultimate stanza.