Rhyming schemes

Einhard

I was a tad uncertain about asking what mght seem such a basic question here, but feck it, if I don't ask, I won't find out.

It's about the poetic rhyming scheme. It appears exceedingly simple at first glance but, having read over a few poems, I'm slightly confused.

Take Wordsworth's "Daffodils":

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
in such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
what wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Nothing too difficult here- a rhyming scheme of ABABCC, running right through the poem.

However, in "Suicide in the Trenches", there's something slightly different:

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.

Here it would seem that we have a simple AABB AABB AABB scheme. However, some sources I've seen insist on an AABB CCDD EEFF scheme, which makes sense too. If we're to be consistent though, shouldn't "Daffodils" have a ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL scheme? Or is the scheme just shortened for convenience's sake because the poem is longer than Sassoon's, and both ways of putting it are correct?

In other words, would I be correct in saying that "Daffodils" is both ABABCC and ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL, and that "Suicide..." is both AABB AABB AABB and AABB CCDD EEFF?

Thanks!

Scealta_saol

I've never seen anything pass E or F being used.. I think it generally depends on the length of the poem. So Sassoon's would only be AABB CCDD EEFF because only 3 stanzas. But Wordsworth with so much more in length (like most of his works ) they only use as far as C. You could technically go on to F but there'd be no need. (I think I'm right on that)