Question

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

The correct answer is ABBA

Step-by-step explanation:

Rhyme occurs when there are similar or the same sounds in a poem. Moreover, a rhyme scheme occurs when the same sounds are repeated at the end of verses in a stanza (groups of verses). This can be identified if you use letters from A to Z to mark the same sounds. In this way, in the stanza presented the scheme is ABBA as shown below:

Your mother Eire is always young, (A)

Dew ever shining and twilight gray; (B)

Though hope fall from you or love decay, (B)

Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. (A)

Considering "young" and "tongue" rhyme and these verses should be marked with A, while "gray" and "decay" rhyme and should be marked with B.