Which of the following best describes the rhyme scheme of the lines below?
Then he climbed to the tower of the church,
Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry-chamber overhead, And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the somber rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade,--
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ABBACC
1A2B3C
AABBCC
Answer:
ABBACC
Step-by-step explanation:
The rhyme scheme used above is ABBACC.
A rhyme scheme is simply the pattern of rhyme that occurs at the end of each line in a poem or song.
ABBACC can be referred to as an enclosed rhyme because of the ABBA which occurs at the first and fourth lines and also at the second and third lines before a different rhyme scheme occurs at the fifth and sixth line.