Name: ___________________________

Rhyming couplets are two poetry lines in a row that rhyme. They usually have the same rhythm.

p
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
— “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
See and tree rhyme, so these two lines are rhyming couplets.

Select three pairs of words from the word Word bank

bank. Write rhyming couplets for each dog / frog bark / dark like / bike
set of words in the spaces below. bear / hair moon / tune night / light
mean / green star / far try / sky
make / cake shoe / blue bee / me

1._______________________________________________________________________

_ _______________________________________________________________________

2._______________________________________________________________________

_ _______________________________________________________________________

3._______________________________________________________________________

_ _______________________________________________________________________

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Name: ___________________________

Rhyming couplets are two poetry lines in a row that rhyme. They usually have the same rhythm.

p
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
— “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
See and tree rhyme, so these two lines are rhyming couplets.

Select three pairs of words from the word Word bank

bank. Write rhyming couplets for each dog / frog bark / dark like / bike
set of words in the spaces below. bear / hair moon / tune night / light
mean / green star / far try / sky
make / cake shoe / blue bee / me

Actual answers will vary.

1._______________________________________________________________________

_ _______________________________________________________________________

2._______________________________________________________________________

_ _______________________________________________________________________

3._______________________________________________________________________

_ _______________________________________________________________________

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