Question

Read this excerpt from "Into the Twilight" by William Butler Yeats. Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight gray; Though hope fall from you or love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza? ABAB AABB ABBA AXAX

Answer 1

It's C! Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The correct answer is ABBA.

Step-by-step explanation:

In poetry, the rhyme pattern or rhyme scheme refers to the structure of end words in each line that is created by writing a poem. There are some poetry forms that focus on the syllables instead of the rhyme pattern. In this case, the pattern is also called enclosed rhyme since the word young rhymes with the last line tongue. On the other hand, the second and third line rhyme by using gray and decay, so the pattern is ABBA.