Rhyme schemes by set partition

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).

The first 52 set partitions with Genji chapter symbols

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.

1

1 2 or AA (closed couplet)

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

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

2

1 3 | 2 or ABA (enclosed tercet)

First stanza of Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley

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

1 2 3 or AAA (triplet)

From The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare

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

6

1 4 | 2 3 or ABBA (enclosed rhyme)

First stanza of Days Too Short by William Davies

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

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

First stanza of Million Man March Poem by Maya Angelou

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

1 3 | 2 4 or ABAB (alternate rhyme)

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

1 2 4 | 3 or AABA (rubāʿī)

From Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

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

1 2 | 3 4 or AABB (couplet)

From Mr. Sandman by Pat Ballard

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

1 2 3 4 or AAAA (monorhyme)

First stanza of The Older I Get by Danielle White

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

1 3 4 | 2 5 or ABAAB

First stanza of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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

1 2 5 | 3 4 or AABBA (limerick)

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

1 3 5 | 2 4 or ABABA

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

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

1 3 4 5 | 2 6 or ABAAAB

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

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

1 2 | 3 6 | 4 5 or AABCCB

From Over The Rainbow by Judy Garland

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

1 2 3 5 | 4 6 or AAABAB

From A Valentine by Lewis Carroll

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

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

First stanza of They Flee From Me by Thomas Wyatt

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

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

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

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

From Don Juan by George Byron

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.