CREATIVE WRITING, SPRING 2016
MS. LEAPHART
EYE RHYME ASSIGNMENT
Poems with Eye Rhyme
The Last Rose of Summer
By Thomas Moore
Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone:
No flower of her kindred,
No rose-bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
Or give sigh for sigh.
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one!
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o'er the bed,
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from Love's shining circle
The gems drop away.
When true hearts lie wither'd,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?
CREATIVE WRITING, SPRING 2016
MS. LEAPHART
EYE RHYME ASSIGNMENT
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
BY W ILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
Your assignment
Write a list of at least 10 pairs of words that illustrate eye rhyme. You may use pairs
found in any of the poems we’ve read this week (Trenite’s, Shakespeare’s, or
Moore’s) or you may think of your own.
Then, choose 5 of these pairs to work into an original poem on any topic you’d like to
write about. Your eye rhymes must appear at the ends of lines, but you may determine
your own rhyme scheme (the pattern of rhyming lines ie AAAA, ABAB, AABCC
etc.)