How to Use rhyme scheme in a Sentence

rhyme scheme

noun

• Even something that doesn’t have a rhyme scheme will have line breaks, a rhythm.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• There was no verse-chorus structure or end-line rhyme scheme.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• In this example, the stanzas all share the same rhyme scheme.
  — Christopher Norris, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
• Every song is a daisy chain of vignettes that bleed into each other while keeping the same rhyme scheme.
  — Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
• The catchy rhyme scheme will entice young readers, while the story of her persistence at city hall will hook them.
  — Emily Barone, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• To create a stanza, the AI chooses one of the classic rhyme schemes at random.
  — Jey Han Lau, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2020
• The writing is bewildering, the rhyme scheme atrocious.
  — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• But if pranks were more like this (consensual, mostly pleasant, nice melody, good rhyme scheme), the world would be a better place.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
• Hewing perfectly to a meter and rhyme scheme is one of the things that make limericks and other light verse funny.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• Besides being delicious, Pappadeaux is simply easy to throw in a rhyme scheme.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 19 Apr. 2021
• With sweet illustrations, a rhyme scheme and a cool surprise on the last page, this is an engaging and lively read for and with kids under 6 or so.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Bey dexterously adopts the Migos' signature triplet flow, putting her own spin on the rhyme scheme that has ruled the airwaves in recent years.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 17 June 2018
• His multisyllabic rhyme schemes took verses to a level beyond what was currently in the marketplace at the time.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 28 Aug. 2023
• But the purpose of these improvisations is to add a secondary rhyme scheme, provide lyrical context or just make their unique sound unmistakable.
  — Felice León, The Root, 27 Oct. 2017
• His initial approach to a beat is melodic and rhythmic, finding a cadence that suits his voice, an energy level at which the vocals will be delivered, and maybe a rhyme scheme.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• The Fables engaged Moore in capturing the rhythms, rhyme schemes, and whimsical tones of the original French.
  — Susan Gubar june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
• Maya circles her legacy-minded suitors, dropping references to Sylvia Plath and discussing the merits of rhyme schemes and suicide.
  — Teo Bugbee, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• In alphabetical order, and with a jaunty rhyme scheme, 26 children meet fates both gruesome and preposterous.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2017
• Her slant rhyme schemes inspired generations of female writers to break boundaries, personally and creatively.
  — Molly Lambert, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2019
• Brash confessional moments at home are intertwined with recording sessions in the studio, where Love is electrified by the creative impulse or a new turn of phrase or rhyme scheme.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
• Adept at weaving together throwback hip-hop melodies with his unorthodox rhyme scheme, Boogie has snatched the ears of many notable artists, especially Drake.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2017
• So many of the 140 lyricists who entered, some of them with a dozen or more songs each, offered songs that cleverly echoed the originals, and matched or even improved on the originals’ rhyme scheme.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2021
• The average student was not much more responsive to rhyme schemes or stress patterns than InstructGPT.
  — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• The meter goes jaunty-iambic, smutty-iambic, with an ABAB rhyme scheme, as if to emphasize the mechanical, tum-pum nature of the thing.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
• In a novella structured like a mix tape and written in the cadence and rhyme scheme of rap lyrics, a dying football star’s resurrection is contingent on limitations to his native abilities.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• And replacing Shakespearean scansion with looser Seuss-ish rhyme schemes would add to the comedy and make the long bouts of exposition at the beginning and end of the play less tedious.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• The minute-long teaser showcases Azealia Banks -- who plays the role of Coco, a 25-year-old aspiring rapper -- flexing her new poetic rhyme scheme in the studio with her group.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2017
• But Mack – freckled face, baby afro, rocking an unlimited supply of hockey jerseys – was an old-school verbal bruiser, coming up with wild-and-crazy rhyme schemes to all those MCs who dare step to him.
  — Craig Lindsey, VIBE.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• Although the translations into English are awkward, especially across the differences in poetic rhyme scheme and structure, the sentiment is unmistakable.
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• But what obsessed me were the lyrics, which describe tragi-comically bleak scenes of contemporary abjection using language that felt borderline Shakespearean, tied up in elaborate rhyme schemes and tight lexical knots.
  — Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2025