ABABCCB Poetry

ABABCCB is a 7-line rhyme scheme where alternating rhymes are followed by a closing couplet and a final B-rhyme. Often found in ballads or lyrical poetry, it blends narrative flow with musical structure. The final B-line often echoes an earlier idea, reinforcing emotion or theme with resolution or emphasis.

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The Runaway Slave At Pilgrim’s Point

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In the shadow of Pilgrim’s Point, a runaway slave confronts oppression, but shows resilience and defiance amidst despair and hope.

This poem follows a strict rhyming pattern of ABABCCB, creating an inescapable sense of confinement. This replicates the feeling of the speaker, who is bound to serve her master in the same way the poem serves the rhyme scheme. The importance of rhyme in this poem can be observed by the single deviation from the established rhyme scheme in the final stanza. It adds an additional C rhyme, providing a small but significant step towards freedom.

I stand on the mark beside the shore

Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee,

Where exile turned to ancestor,

And God was thanked for liberty.

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