Final answer:
The actual text of the poem "An Open Boat" by Alfred Noyes is necessary to determine its rhyme scheme. Common quatrain rhyme schemes include ABCB, AABB, ABBA, and ABAB. The provided excerpt is from Stephen Crane's prose, not a poem.
Step-by-step explanation:
The student has asked about the rhyme scheme of "An Open Boat" by Alfred Noyes. It is important to note that the excerpt provided in the question does not come from a poem but rather a short story by Stephen Crane with a similar title, "The Open Boat," which does not have a rhyme scheme as it is prose.
However, for poems in general, common rhyme schemes in a quatrain (four-line stanza) can be ABCB, AABB, ABBA, or ABAB. Given the options provided and assuming the question refers to a poem, option D, ABAB, is a common choice for many traditional poems, like the one demonstrated in Aphra Behn's "The Character."
Without the actual text from Alfred Noyes's "An Open Boat," it is not possible to definitively determine the correct rhyme scheme for the poem in question. If the student can provide the text, we could analyze it to find the exact rhyme scheme.