ABAB Rhyme Scheme
Published: August 2017
This collection contains poems that use the ABAB rhyme scheme. The ABAB rhyme scheme is where the ending words of lines one and three (A) rhyme with each other and the ending words of lines two and four (B) rhyme with each other.
19 Examples Of Poems That Use The ABAB Rhyme Scheme
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1. So Happy And So Proud
Thoughts of you surround me.
You're the beating of my heart.
The love you give defines me.
My life is no longer dark.
You give your hand so sweetly.
I am lost if you're away.
You have me so completely.
I cherish you night and day.
Without your breath, I cannot live.
I need your lips on mine.
Nothing at all I wouldn't give.
I'll take nothing and be fine.
For in your arms I'm always home,
So happy and so proud.
Never a day you'll feel alone,
And I'll yell it oh so loud...
I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!
Featured Shared StoryI love you more than the words on paper can express. I can't live my life without you. You're my beautiful angel that keeps me looking up. You keep me from drowning. I live, breathe, and...
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2. Invictus
Famous Poem
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Featured Shared StoryOnce I was a good student. I have always been an obedient and gentle person. Then I failed in my life for the first time in the year 2002. Something happened and I fell right from the top and...
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3. A Psalm Of Life
Famous Poem
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!—
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.Featured Shared StoryMy deceased husband introduced me to this poem 55 years ago, and I've always considered it a great gift.
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4. I Love You
I never really knew you.
You were just another friend,
But when I got to know you,
I let my heart unbend.
I couldn't help past memories
That would only make me cry.
I had to forget my first love
And give another try.
So I've fallen in love with you,
And I'll never let you go.
I love you more than anyone.
I just had to let you know.
My feelings for you will never change.
Just know my feelings are true.
Just remember this one thing -
I will always love you.Featured Shared StoryHonestly, the first time I read this, I was deeply struck. This resembled the time when I was moving on from my crush and then I fell for another girl, who was my friend. I never knew I would...
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5. My Angel, My Girlfriend
Some people believe there is one,
The one who points your way to the sun.
A person they believe makes them complete,
The one who will support when facing defeat.
You are my angel, my one and only,
My forever love, so we'll never be lonely.
You've brought to my life all your love and care.
It made me see when I realized how rare
It is to meet your angel, or their lifetime one,
Through you and my children, whose life has begun.
What you've done, you've illuminated my soul.
It's you and your love that has made me whole.
The feel of your love, your soft touch and caress,
We're tight, so close; your heart beats in my chest.
All that we have always felt missing before.
Though I love you today, tomorrow it will be more.
Our love is life; we are the strongest tree,
Which will always grow forever, like you and me.
You have opened my heart and held it so dear.
You are my angel and will always keep it near.
You have seen my ups and cared when I was low.
You are my angel; I just need you to know.
You entered my life through a ray of sun above,
And when we leave, we will leave together in love.
My love for you has become my reason to be.
I hope one day you'll find your angel in me.
Featured Shared StoryMy girlfriend's name is Fereshte, and she is in the hospital. We are far, far away because she lives in the city I used to live before. Right now we are thousands of kilometers away, but our...
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6. You
It's that look in your eye.
It's the smile on your face
That makes time slip by,
And I know I'm in a better place.
It's the memories of you I have
That make any grey sky turn blue
And lets me know these feelings I have
Are true.
Getting lost in my dreams
With the mere image of you.
It's hard to imagine; it seems
A future lost, one without you.
So I leave my arms open,
And I'll wish and may pray,
Eyes focused and hoping
For your embrace just one more day.Featured Shared StoryThis is a great poem. I hope you write more!
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7. Friends
Famous Poem
How good to lie a little while
And look up through the tree!
The Sky is like a kind big smile
Bent sweetly over me.
The Sunshine flickers through the lace
Of leaves above my head,
And kisses me upon the face
Like Mother, before bed.
The Wind comes stealing o'er the grass
To whisper pretty things;
And though I cannot see him pass,
I feel his careful wings.
So many gentle Friends are near
Whom one can scarcely see,
A child should never feel a fear,
Wherever he may be.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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8. The Brook
Famous Poem
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.
With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,
And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,
And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;
And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.Featured Shared StoryI was read poetry to my mother born 1929 in faraway Colombo, Sri Lanka. She loved this poem, and I remember her animated voice bringing the words hidden in the babbling brook to life and the...
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9. Sometimes I Dream That I Can Fly
Sometimes I dream that I can fly.
I lift and flap my arms just so,
And soon I'm soaring to the sky.
Graceful like a bird I go.
I find a fluffy cotton cloud
And catch myself a comfy ride.
I cannot hear a single sound,
As slowly through the air I glide.
My silky cloud floats with the breeze,
Through the bluest sky.
Just like a sailboat on the sea,
With seagulls swooping by.
I look upon the streets below
And spy my friends at play.
I dive and dip and twirl around,
As they watch in awe and wave.
I feel so giddy, light and free,
The sun so warm and bright.
I think that I shall fly all day,
And catch a star at night.
But then the wind begins to blow,
And the clouds turn angry gray.
They growl and rumble as they go,
And chase the birds away.
And though it's fun to touch the sky,
I start to feel alone.
I don't feel welcome anymore,
I think perhaps I should go home.
So I lift my arms and tuck my head,
And drift back to the ground.
And when my feet are back on earth,
The rain comes pouring down.
Indeed I had the grandest time,
Up in the boundless sky.
But it's really much too lonely there
To live in all the time.
And though my friends looked up to me
And my heroic flying feats,
It seemed they liked me just as much
When I stood on my two feet.
So I'll do my flying in my dreams,
Where it's all just make believe.
And in real life, I'll stay right here,
Where I'm loved just being me.Featured Shared StoryThanks, Pat, for your poem. I love the feeling of movement your words create - they really transported me. And I also appreciate your honesty in dealing with the subject of finding and having...
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10. A Nation's Strength
Famous Poem
What makes a nation's pillars high
And its foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?
It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.
Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.
And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;
But God has struck its luster down
In ashes at his feet.
Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly...
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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11. Best Friends
I promise to love you
When your jokes are not funny.
I promise to love you
When you have no money.
I promise to love you
When you're sick and all snotty.
I promise to love you
When you're angry and grotty.
I promise to love you
When you're drunk and unruly.
I promise to love you
When you're hung over and drooly.
And I promise to love you
When you drive me 'round the bend.
I promise to love you
Because you are my best friend!Featured Shared StoryThis poem I sent to my boyfriend, as it is just perfect for me and him.
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12. Dirge Without Music
Famous Poem
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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13. It Might Have Been
Famous Poem
We will be what we could be. Do not say,
"It might have been, had not or that, or this."
No fate can keep us from the chosen way;
He only might who is.
We will do what we could do. Do not dream
Chance leaves a hero, all uncrowned to grieve.
I hold, all men are greatly what they seem;
He does who could achieve.
We will climb where we could climb. Tell me not
Of adverse storms that kept thee from the height.
What eagle ever missed the peak he sought?
He always climbs who might.
I do not like the phrase, "It might have been!"
It lacks all force, and life's best truths perverts:
For I believe we have, and reach, and win,
Whatever our deserts.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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14. Just One Thing I Should Have Said
He is a friend to remember,
A friend I miss so much.
I think about all the laughter
And even the times we'd touch.
I know you know the score now
As you look down from above.
You see me full of sorrow
'Cause so much of you I love.
I wish I had the chance,
But you decided you had to go.
That night you asked me for that dance
I should have told you so.
But as every day has passed,
I can almost feel you near.
I just always thought you'd forever last
But now it's you I cannot hear.
Just one thing I should have said
While you were still down here,
But you stepped inside that bloody shed,
Though I will always hold you near.
I know to heaven you have been led.
You're my angel up above,
But just one thing I should have said.
It was you I always LOVED.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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15. The One
Analysis of Form and Technique
The one who brought me down to earth
And held me every day.
The one who gracefully gave me birth
And said, I love you in every way.
The one who taught me everything,
Like how to crawl and walk.
The one who taught me how to sing
After learning how to talk.
The one who told me, stay in school
And always play nice.
The one who told me, keep it cool,
And gave me good advice.
The one who taught me how to read
And how to do my math.
The one who taught me how to bead
And told me to take a bath.
The one who lectured, school before a man
And to love one another.
Believe me that this woman
Can be no one but my Mother!Featured Shared StoryVery good usage of words. Rhyming pattern is good and the structure rocks. One of the best I've read so far. Keep on writing more!
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16. The Drifter's Melody
The time soon comes for parting,
And our time is at an end.
The rest of your life is starting,
And we have no time at all to spend.
You knew one day you'd have to go,
But thought you'd have more time.
We can't reverse time's one-way flow,
But at least you'll have this rhyme.
You had your shining moments,
Upon this life's darkened stage,
And in my book of wonderments
You'll never be just another page.
Like the exploding of a star,
You've changed me in and out.
Your light will travel with me far,
Past when all other lights go out.
Featured Shared StoryI'm moving away to a different country to start high school and continue my life. This means that I'll be leaving my best friend behind. We could talk over the internet, but I don't think...
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17. Forgiveness
Baby, you tell me you love me.
You tell me you care.
You say you need to have me,
But all I can do is stare.
You treated me with hate.
You told me a lot of lies.
For me it may be too late,
For my eyes are full of despise.
I am trying to let it go,
Trying to deal with it all.
My love is hard to show
When it's him that you may call.
You say you've learned a lot.
You say you know you were wrong.
Don't let me put you on the spot.
Does your love to me belong?
My feelings you tried to taunt.
Our life you left in tatters.
Our family is what I want.
Our family is all that matters.
Just give to me your heart,
I promise I will not break.
Forgiveness is a start,
Something that must not wait.
Now give to me a shot
To make us happiest of all,
'Cause I will give you all I've got.
My love for you shall not fall.
Featured Shared StoryThe same thing as the first comment happened to me my girlfriend cheated on me but she is trying to prove herself to be remorseful and this poem has summed up how I feel perfectly and what's...
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18. Carnival
Skipping through the cool grass
with eyes shining bright,
heart beating fast,
awaiting a magical night.
The lights color her skin
with purples, reds, and greens
and reflect off of her grin,
showing pure innocent glee.
Amazed by clowns juggling things.
With cotton candy in hand,
she laughs and she sings
with the music band.
All of the games, colors, and bells
excite her little mind.
She'll have happy tales to tell
when she leaves the carnival behind.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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19. My Sweet Savior
I felt so rejected, alone and sad,
like an abandoned puppy left to wander a street.
It was then that I realized that my life was really bad,
so I disowned every challenge I happened to meet.
I just gave up on trying to make others happy,
so I fell in a hole that was too deep to climb.
I sure didn't care if others felt crappy.
People got on my nerves for such a long time.
'Til that day I saw someone who changed my ways.
It was someone I knew and disliked so much,
but the way that I felt when my eyes met her gaze
I forgot all my troubles, my sorrows and such.
She helped pull me out of that hellish, dark hole.
I got all my thoughts back on track and my heart set in place.
She filled up this feeling, one that never felt full.
She got rid of my hatred, which I'll never re-trace.
It was then that I noticed how my life would get better, for sure.
She became my sweet savior, a gift from above.
My life would be nothing had I never met her.
I'm glad that I have someone now that I love.Featured Shared StoryThis poem basically explains me and how I feel from deep down. It reminds me of the dark times before I recently got a girlfriend. When I first got my girlfriend it was like a whole different...
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