Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on how sound patterns give a poem its shape, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.4. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 22 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines
RL.2.4
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Fog Morning
The hill has gone. The wood has gone.
The postbox stands in a cloud, alone.
No sheep, no gate, no crooked tree —
only the ten short steps I see.
I walk. The ten steps walk with me.
The gate appears. And then the tree.
The hill comes back. The wood comes back.
The fog rolls off along the track.
1. How many verses does this poem have?
2. Which line tells you the fog moves with the walker?
3. How is the last verse the opposite of the first?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Rain on the Roof
Rain on the roof, rain on the road,
rain on the back of a slow brown toad.
Rain on the window, rain on the pane,
rain on the roses, rain, rain, rain.
Rain in the gutter, rain in the drain,
rain till the puddle is deep as a lane.
Rain on the roof, rain on the road —
and out comes the sun for the slow brown toad.
1. Which line is repeated in the poem?
2. How does the last verse change from the first?
3. Which words rhyme with "road"?
LessonPrint · RL.2.4 · Set 22 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Rhythm, Rhyme and Repeated Lines
Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Four verses. 2. "I walk. The ten steps walk with me." 3. The first says the hill and wood have gone; the last says they come back.
2.1. "Rain on the roof, rain on the road" — it opens the poem and returns at the end. 2. It repeats the first line, then the sun comes out instead of more rain. 3. "Toad".
More practice for RL.2.4
Notice rhyme, repeated lines and beat, and say what they add.