Question

Determine the rhyme scheme of the following poem (Assume that"thou" rhymes with "below.").

Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Shelley
III
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams ___
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,___
Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams,___
Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,___
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers___
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,___
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers___
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou___
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers___
Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below___
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear___
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know___
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,___
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!___

Answers: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H

PLEASE HELP!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THIS QUESTION AND I'M REALLY CONFUSED!

Answer 1

You have to put a letter indicating the type of rhyme on each line of the poem.

The rhyme scheme of the poem "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Shelley is the following:

-A

-B

-A

-B

-C

-B

-C

-D

-C

-D

-E

-D

-E

-E

So, the rhyme scheme is ABAB CBCD CDED EE

When you want to determine the rhyme scheme of any poem, you should look only at the final word in each line. Based on that, you will know which lines rhyme, and which don't.

Shelley’s poem has a particular rhyme scheme with is playing with the idea of the wind, of moving along with the rhymes (this is why there are three rhymes with “lay”, “Thou”, etc.)