The rhyme scheme is the same from stanza to stanza.
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Father William
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by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
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"YOU are old, Father William," the young man
said.
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head-
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
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"In my youth," Father William replied to his
son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
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