Like composers, poets play with words to create sound effects in their poems. They try to bring out the music in words so that their poems are pleasing to the ear. You, too, can add sound effects to your poems by using devices such as rhyme, rhythm, repetition and onomatopoeias.
Rhyme
Rhyme is a clever device for echoing sound. If one word sounds like another, it creates a chiming sound when the poem is read aloud. There are many ways to rhyme, but the most common is to rhyme words at the end of lines, which is called end rhyme. Here's an example:
I don't mind eels
except as meals.
By Ogden Nash
A poem's pattern of rhyme is called a rhyme scheme. You can mark it with letters of the alphabet. Just put an A at the end of the first line and another A beside the lines that rhyme with it. Then put a B beside the next rhyme and another B with the lines that rhyme with that and so on. Here's an example: