5 Steps to Write a Rhyming Poem [How to Guide]

Muhammad Mehedi Hasan
3 min readAug 26, 2019

Are you looking forward to writing a rhyming poem? If your answer is yes, then this How-to guide only for you.

Writing a poem is a good part for anyone. It exposes your emotion with some verses or lines. A poem has no specific formal rules to write but there have some ornaments to design one who writes a poem.

How do you write a rhyming poem?

First of all, poetry writing exercises are given you shape in your writing. Rhyming means repetition of similar-sounding words in a poem. When you write a rhyming poem then it has some ingredients to use.

Using rhyming words is the main ingredient apply to your poem, it recites to pleasure when readers to read that poem. It creates harmony with those verses.

How many different types of rhymes?

As a poet when you write your poem you see what type is the best fit for the poem. There have several types of rhyming you can follow.

According to an author Simon Kewin from Daily Writing Tips, who write an article on that. Following these type of rhymes mostly used.

1. End Rhymes: This rhyming of the last words of lines in a poem
2. Internal Rhymes: Rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry.
3. Slant Rhymes: Slant rhyme is a way perhaps more in tune with the uncertainties of the modern age than strong rhyme.
4. Rich Rhymes: Rhyme using two different words that happen to sound the same
5. Eye Rhymes: Rhyme on words that look the same but which are pronounced differently.
6. Identical Rhymes: Simply using the same word twice.

5 Steps to Write a Rhyming Poem

This post, I will cover how to write a rhyming poem. Here you can follow these steps to write your one.

Step #01: Choose Your Poem Topic.

There have lots of topics you can choose from. You have to select your poem topic. Think about it, how you feel about specific emotion and which topic in that. You may select a moment of your life. Say for example, ‘Troubles of Life’ this is your topic.

Step #02: Select Your Rhyme Type.

In this step, you should choose your rhyming type. I will write a short poem for you to better understand how to write a rhyming poem. I select this ‘End Rhyme’.

Step #03: Express Your Feeling on that Topic.

So here, what you felt at that moment just to describe with some meaningful sentences.
Example:

Just half a day remaining,
To start a new beginning.
It’s all about my life happening,
To achieve heart something.

Here, I am narrating a moment and it’s time to achieve something which I want most.

Step #04: Find Several Rhyming Words

You have to select some rhyming words which place on your write up a poem.

Just half a day remaining,
To start a new
beginning.
It’s all about my life
happening,
To achieve heart
something.

Here, you notice carefully, I use some rhyming words. These are ornaments of the poem and create harmony when reciting this poem.

Step #05: Reshape and Recite Poem

The Final step, reshape your poem with beautiful and meaningful rhyming words. Expressing your emotions through the poem is not a tough job but it’s needed to practice more. It gives you pleasure while reciting the poem.

Your Turn:

In the sum up, if you follow these steps then I must say it is easy to write your next poem. Good Luck!

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