Read this excerpt from "The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.Though I am old with wanderingThrough hollow lands and hilly lands,I will find out where she has gone,And kiss her lips and take her handsWhich pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

The second line ends with “lands,” and the fourth ends with “hands”; those words rhyme. The first line’s “wandering” and the third line’s “gone” do not rhyme with each other or with that pair. So the pattern is XAXA: the first and third lines are unrhymed, while the second and fourth rhyme. The correct choice is XAXA.

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