Question

what is the rhyme scene of the poem?in the bangle sellers

Answer 1

The ‘rhyme scheme’ of a poem is just the pattern of which words rhyme. So, if we have a look at the first stanza:

Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.

So what rhymes? We have ‘bear’ and ‘fair’ - this is the first rhyming match we have found, so we will call it ‘A’. Then we write down the pattern of which lines these rhyming words showed up in. Since they are the first two, we start with:

A
A

So, which are the next rhymers? ‘Bright’ and ‘light’. Since they are the second pair of rhyming words we have found we will call them ‘B’. They appear on lines 3 and 4, so we extend our pattern to:

A
A
B
B

Last in this stanza is the rhyme of ‘lives’ and ‘wives’. Using the method outlined so far, we call these ‘C’ and they are in the next two lines:

A
A
B
B
C
C

So, the first stanza of the poem has the rhyming pattern AABBCC. That’s pretty much all there is to it!

More complex rhyming schemes might return to re-use an earlier rhyme, so a pattern doesn’t just always add new letters to the end. For example, if this verse had a last line like:

“Who leave me alone in my chair”

At the end, then this would be a return to the rhyme from the first lines, so the full pattern would be AABBCCA.