An alternate rhyme is a pattern found in poetry in which the author intentionally alternates between two end sounds. Usually, the pattern changes from stanza to stanza. For example, the first stanza rhymes ABAB and the second rhymes CDCD.
Simple, yet precise, the ABAB pattern prompts you to write a quatrain in which the first line rhymes with the third, and the second line rhymes with the fourth.
Alternate rhyme example：
Grasp the nettle（感谢 7grizzly 推荐）
by Aaron Hill （Stressed syllables are highlighted）
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you, for your pains:
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
Homework： Write a poem on the Northern Lights（Aurora Borealis）that showed up in North America a few days ago.
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