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Rev-BasNoBeatha 
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 Topic: What are you Scheming, bruh?Posted: 14 Sep 2025 at 1:50pm |
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I was just curious what sorts of rhyme schemes everyone chose to use! Something simple like AABB? More complex? How strictly do you adhere to it? Is your story more poetic or just a tale where the sentences happen to rhyme?
Mine was a Ghost Story, so I went with a creepy nursery rhyme vibe and used an ABCBAC scheme to make it feel slightly "off."
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FerretKittyMom
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Posted: 14 Sep 2025 at 7:35pm |
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I used AABCCB. I tried to stick as much as possible to the cadence from the nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard.
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CoachLisaB
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 1:22am |
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ABAB and I'm strict about my rhyme scheme once I pick one. Also, I started with iambic pentameter, but the story DRAGGGGED. So I greatly appreciated @scurvy_seadog's suggestion to change the meter. Now it's in common meter, 8.6.8.6, and is so much lighter. Amazing.
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Kiwiclogs
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 3:22am |
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I was aiming for ABCB with a bonus internal rhyme on each C line. I think it’s common meter, alternating 3 and 4 feet (mostly iambs) each line. I made a few exceptions so parts would feel a little more conversational. I don’t think I hit the mark 100%, but it was fun trying
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fioOxf
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 6:49am |
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I switch it up, because my stanzas have moods and verses have rhythm/tempo (as opposed to meter). I never pre-plan the meter or rhyme scheme, because the story somehow tells itself and I match the technical stuff to the emotion (eg 'she's heartbroken'), the action (eg 'she's rowing a boat') or the mood ('oh oh, it's getting ominous'). I do count on my fingers from time to time, when the story has decided to run amuck and I need to reel it in.
Edited by fioOxf - 15 Sep 2025 at 8:32am |
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nod1v1ng
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 8:15am |
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I'm pretty sure I'm going to offend the purists. This was my rhyming scheme note to the judges: Much of the rhyming & meter is deliberately chaotic. Steve is a hot mess.
I did have a couple sections that had established rhyme and meter. One was a AAA 5/5/10 section. Another was classic ABCB. The rest of it was meterless, internal rhymes, etc. It was kind of chaos... LOL |
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bobc
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 8:30am |
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Anapestic tetrameter, ABCB, 12/9/12/9, with an occasional added rhyming middle line (ABCCB) to spice things up and accelerate the tempo. |
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Jennk
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 9:19am |
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Mostly the simple AABB, 10-11 syllables per line. But deliberately broke pattern in 2-3 areas for dramatic purpose.
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Grace Braeburn
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 9:50am |
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I originally tried ABA BCB CDC etc. but it didn't seem to suit my story. Ended up using the ABAB rhyme scheme, with a couplet at the end of each of the story's three parts. I mostly used iambic pentameter. For one stanza, I used AABB and 8-8-10-10. Edited by Grace Braeburn - 15 Sep 2025 at 9:55am |
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jhenn
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Posted: 15 Sep 2025 at 10:28am |
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anapestic tetrameter, AABB, because I feel like it has an implied momentum, and my stories get claggy if i don't shove them along.
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