Read this excerpt from “Into the Twilight” by William Butler Yeats.Your mother Eire is always young,Dew ever shining and twilight gray;Though hope fall from you or love decay,Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

The first line ends with “young,” which rhymes with “tongue” at the end of the fourth line. The second line ends with “gray,” which rhymes with “decay” at the end of the third line. This gives the pattern ABBA, so the correct choice is C.

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