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Reply 1
It's not any of the familiar ones (Shakespearean, Spenserian, Petrarchan etc...). What poem have you taken that scheme from?
Endymion
It's not any of the familiar ones (Shakespearean, Spenserian, Petrarchan etc...). What poem have you taken that scheme from?


I took it from 'The Showre' by Henry Vaughan. Yeah it's not an obvious one, but it's doesn't seem too uncommon.
Reply 3
It's not Spenserian (i think)...for that is ababbcbcc, there is something called a gushi which appears in part as abbcca but then carries on dcebaadafcbbbacagacb and so that first part abbcca which I'm told can be a ballad. I've looked for some poems that feature it, but they were translations and so are not exact to the original forms.
Reply 4
i'm not so sure that it is a name. most of the other ababbabeabcabfdusabhdsahb combination things have names because they were the pioneering styles which othered follwed, or if not followed at least fully recognised and adored.

the fact that it's not an obvious one, but doesn't seem too uncommon, probably explains why it hasn't got a name (as far as i know). as i said, you get the major patterns getting names.. but the only other types of rhyme scheme patterns given names are those which are compeltely randomy, bizarre and nameworthy.