Rhyme schemes by set partition

The first 52 set partitions with Genji chapter symbols

The rhyme scheme of a poem or stanza can be denoted by a pair (m,n), where m is the number of lines and 0≤n< A000041(m) denotes the set partition (compare  A231428).

Usually the last line will rhyme with some other line, so n implies m \- e.g. all schemes between 5 and 14 imply four lines.

The first Bell(5) = 52 set partitions are shown on the right (with Tale of Genji chapter symbols). The first Bell(8) = 4140 are here.

## Contents

* 1: AA (closed couplet)
* 2: ABA (enclosed tercet)
* 4: AAA (triplet)
* 6: ABBA (enclosed rhyme)
* 7: ABCB (simple 4-line)
* 8: ABAB (alternate rhyme)
* 9: AABA (rubāʿī)
* 11: AABB (couplet)
* 14: AAAA (monorhyme)
* 24: ABAAB
* 26: AABBA (limerick)
* 33: ABABA
* 81: ABAAAB
* 98: AABCCB
* 128: AAABAB
* 719: ABABBCC (rhyme royal)
* 2785: ABABBCBC (ballade)
* 3401: ABABABCC (ottava rima)

## 1[edit | edit source]

1 2 or AA (closed couplet)

End of I shall forget you presently, my dear by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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1  |  |  | Whether or not we find what we are seeking
2  |  |  | Is idle, biologically speaking.

## 2[edit | edit source]

1 3 | 2 or ABA (enclosed tercet)

First stanza of Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley

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1  |  |  |  | O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being
2  |  |  |  | Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
3  |  |  |  | Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing

## 4[edit | edit source]

1 2 3 or AAA (triplet)

From The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare

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1  |  |  | Death is now the phoenix' nest
2  |  |  | And the turtle's loyal breast
3  |  |  | To eternity doth rest

## 6[edit | edit source]

1 4 | 2 3 or ABBA (enclosed rhyme)

First stanza of Days Too Short by William Davies

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1  |  |  |  | When primroses are out in Spring,
2  |  |  |  | And small blue violets come between;
3  |  |  |  | When merry birds sing on boughs green,
4  |  |  |  | And rills, as soon as born, must sing.

## 7[edit | edit source]

1 | 2 4 | 3 or ABCB (simple 4-line)

First stanza of Million Man March Poem by Maya Angelou

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1  |  |  |  |  | The night has been long,
2  |  |  |  |  | The wound has been deep,
3  |  |  |  |  | The pit has been dark,
4  |  |  |  |  | And the walls have been steep.

## 8[edit | edit source]

1 3 | 2 4 or ABAB (alternate rhyme)

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1  |  |  |  | Bid me to weep, and I will weep
2  |  |  |  | While I have eyes to see;
3  |  |  |  | And having none, yet I will keep
4  |  |  |  | A heart to weep for thee.

## 9[edit | edit source]

1 2 4 | 3 or AABA (rubāʿī)

From Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

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1  |  |  |  | My little horse must think it queer
2  |  |  |  | To stop without a farmhouse near
3  |  |  |  | Between the woods and frozen lake
4  |  |  |  | The darkest evening of the year.

## 11[edit | edit source]

1 2 | 3 4 or AABB (couplet)

From Mr. Sandman by Pat Ballard

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1  |  |  |  | Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
2  |  |  |  | Make him the cutest that I've ever seen
3  |  |  |  | Give him two lips like roses and clover
4  |  |  |  | Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over

## 14[edit | edit source]

1 2 3 4 or AAAA (monorhyme)

First stanza of The Older I Get by Danielle White

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1  |  |  | I once heard the whisper of falling snow,
2  |  |  | saw a spark in the eye of a coal-black crow,
3  |  |  | felt the power and awe of a swift river's flow,
4  |  |  | the older I get, the less I know.

## 24[edit | edit source]

1 3 4 | 2 5 or ABAAB

First stanza of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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1  |  |  |  | Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
2  |  |  |  | And sorry I could not travel both
3  |  |  |  | And be one traveler, long I stood
4  |  |  |  | And looked down one as far as I could
5  |  |  |  | To where it bent in the undergrowth

## 26[edit | edit source]

1 2 5 | 3 4 or AABBA (limerick)

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1  |  |  |  | There once was a short man from Ealing,
2  |  |  |  | Who got on a bus to Darjeeling.
3  |  |  |  | It said on the door:
4  |  |  |  | "Please don't spit on the floor!"
5  |  |  |  | So he carefully spat on the ceiling.

## 33[edit | edit source]

1 3 5 | 2 4 or ABABA

Beginning of the ring verse by J. R. R. Tolkien

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1  |  |  |  | Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
2  |  |  |  | Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
3  |  |  |  | Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
4  |  |  |  | One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
5  |  |  |  | In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

The complete poem would be scheme 2451 (ABABACCA).

## 81[edit | edit source]

1 3 4 5 | 2 6 or ABAAAB

From Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, chapter 23, by Lewis Carroll

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1  |  |  |  | There was a Pig that sat alone
2  |  |  |  | Beside a ruined Pump:
3  |  |  |  | By day and night he made his moan –
4  |  |  |  | It would have stirred a heart of stone
5  |  |  |  | To see him wring his hoofs and groan,
6  |  |  |  | Because he could not jump.

## 98[edit | edit source]

1 2 | 3 6 | 4 5 or AABCCB

From Over The Rainbow by Judy Garland

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1  |  |  |  |  | Someday I'll wish upon a star
2  |  |  |  |  | And wake up where the clouds are far
3  |  |  |  |  | Behind me
4  |  |  |  |  | Where troubles melt like lemon drops
5  |  |  |  |  | Away above the chimney tops
6  |  |  |  |  | That's where you'll find me

## 128[edit | edit source]

1 2 3 5 | 4 6 or AAABAB

From A Valentine by Lewis Carroll

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1  |  |  |  | Must he then only live to weep,
2  |  |  |  | Who'd prove his friendship true and deep
3  |  |  |  | By day a lonely shadow creep,
4  |  |  |  | At night-time languish,
5  |  |  |  | Oft raising in his broken sleep
6  |  |  |  | The moan of anguish?

## 719[edit | edit source]

1 3 | 2 4 5 | 6 7 or ABABBCC (rhyme royal)

First stanza of They Flee From Me by Thomas Wyatt

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1  |  |  |  |  | They flee from me that sometime did me seek
2  |  |  |  |  | With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
3  |  |  |  |  | I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
4  |  |  |  |  | That now are wild and do not remember
5  |  |  |  |  | That sometime they put themself in danger
6  |  |  |  |  | To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
7  |  |  |  |  | Busily seeking with a continual change.

(Did danger rhyme with chamber and remember in the 16th century?)

## 2785[edit | edit source]

1 3 | 2 4 5 7 | 6 8 or ABABBCBC (the usual rhyme scheme of a ballade)

First stanza of Ballade of a Ship by Edwin Arlington Robinson

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1  |  |  |  |  | Down by the flash of the restless water
2  |  |  |  |  | The dim White Ship like a white bird lay;
3  |  |  |  |  | Laughing at life and the world they sought her,
4  |  |  |  |  | And out she swung to the silvering bay.
5  |  |  |  |  | Then off they flew on their roystering way,
6  |  |  |  |  | And the keen moon fired the light foam flying
7  |  |  |  |  | Up from the flood where the faint stars play,
8  |  |  |  |  | And the bones of the brave in the wave are lying.

## 3401[edit | edit source]

1 3 5 | 2 4 6 | 7 8 or ABABABCC (ottava rima)

From Don Juan by George Byron

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1  |  |  |  |  | "Go, little book, from this my solitude!
2  |  |  |  |  | I cast thee on the waters – go thy ways!
3  |  |  |  |  | And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
4  |  |  |  |  | The world will find thee after many days."
5  |  |  |  |  | When Southey's read, and Wordsworth understood,
6  |  |  |  |  | I can't help putting in my claim to praise –
7  |  |  |  |  | The four first rhymes are Southey's every line:
8  |  |  |  |  | For God's sake, reader! take them not for mine.