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Read this excerpt from “After Blenheim” by Robert Southey. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

A. acbadd
B. abcbdd
C. abcdee
D. abcbdc

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It is B. abcbdd. As the words on the end of the line are:
Evening
Done
Door
Sun
Green
Wilhelmine
It starts on A and that doesn't rhyme with any others but then done and sun rhyme and so do green and wilhelmine.
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