| Although it does not fit the metrical requirements of a sonnet, Herrick's song follows a metrical pattern and rhyme scheme. |
| Through how many lines is the rhyme scheme the same as that followed in the Italian sonnet? |
| You are constrained by a specific meter, a specific rhyme scheme, and a specific length. |
| The poem consists of thirty-five stanzas, not one of which repeats both the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme of any other. |
| I mean, let's see you write three to four thousand of these monstrous stanzas, with their sinewy ababbcbcc rhyme scheme and closing alexandrine. |
| Tennyson's epic Charge of the Light Brigade was really just McGonagall with a competent rhyme scheme and effective scansion! |
