Poetry Sounds

At first, I thought rhyme was words that sounded alike, but I learned that rhyme is the repetition of the sounds of the stressed vowel any sound that follow in words that are close togetherr.

An example of a poem with end rhyme is below. The title is Whatif, and the author is Shel Siverstein The rhyme scheme is aabbcc....

Last night, while I lay thinking here,
some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
and pranced and partied all night long
and sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I'm dumb in school?
Whatif they've closed the swimming pool?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there's poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
Whatif I get sick and die?
Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?
Whatif I don't grow talle?
Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
Whatif the fish won't bite?
Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
Whatif they start a war?
Whatif my parents get divorced?
Whatif the bus is late?
Whatif my teeth don't grow in straight?
Whatif I tear my pants?
Whatif I never learn to dance?
Everything seems well, and then

the nighttime Whatifs strike again!

On my poetry pretest, I was below grade-level. On my post test, I hope that I will be at least grade-level. I will study the night of the test and I will study before the test.