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Enclosed rhyme

Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme) is the rhyme scheme ABBA (that is, where the first and fourth lines, and the second and third lines rhyme). Enclosed-rhyme quatrains are used in introverted quatrains, as in the first two stanzas of Petrarchan sonnets.

Example

But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.		\mathrm{A}

::(From John Milton: "Sonnet VII")

"Exposure", by Wilfred Owen, also has an example of enclosed rhyme. Each of the eight stanzas have the ABBA half rhyming sequence:

But nothing happens.

References

"Rhyme".
John Milton, [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1745/1745-h/1745-h.htm#link2H_4_0015 "The poetical works of John Milton, Sonet VII"], ''Project Gutenberg'', 1908
Wilfred Owen, [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1034/1034-h/1034-h.htm#link2H_4_0018 "Poems by Wilfred Owen, Exposure"], ''Project Gutenberg'', 1918

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