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Which rhyme scheme is used in this excerpt from Richard Lovelace's "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"? Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind To war and arms I fly.
A. abcd
B. aabb
C. abab
D. abbb

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The answer is c (abab)
User Mikko Maunu
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The correct answer is C) abab.

The rhyme scheme that is used in the excerpt form Richard Lovelace’s “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” is “abab”.

When writing poetry, the lines in the stanza has to end in rhyme. In this case, the excerpt’s first stanza the rhymes are “a: unkind-mind” and “nunnery-fly”. Richard Lovelace was an English writer. He wrote the poem “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” is 1649. It refers to a man who goes to war, leaving behind a lover.


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