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Which best describes the rhyme schemes in "A Psalm of Life" and "Auspex"?

a. Neither poem follows a strict rhyme scheme.
b. The poems follow identical rhyme schemes.
c. The poems follow different rhyme schemes.
d. Just one of the poems follows a rhyme scheme.

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Answer:

C. The poems follow different rhyme schemes.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life", the rhyme scheme is as follows:

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, A

Life is but an empty dream! B

For the soul is dead that slumbers, A

And things are not what they seem. B

However, in James Russel's "Auspex", though it too has a rhyme scheme, it is different than the one in "A Psalm of Life". See here:

My heart, I cannot still it, A

Nest that had song-birds in it; A

And when the last shall go, B

The dreary days to fill it, A

Instead of lark or linnet, A

Shall whirl dead leaves and snow. B

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