"The Tuft of Flowers- does have a strict rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and CC. The poem is organized in couplets, each of which contains a single thought. ... "The Tuft of Flowers "can accommodate a marked flexibility of speech within its rather unpromising form, the two-line rhyming couplet stanzas. ... While reading the poem the audience hears something like a song, especially because of the rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and CC. ... The poem also has two indications of internal rhyme in it, which occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry, which is underlined in lines 39...

• Word Count: 1806
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School