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QuizMultiple Choice

Rhyme, Rhythm, and Visualizing in a Yeats Poem

Question 6 • SS-English Language Arts 7

Read this excerpt from "The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head,And cut and peeled a hazel wand,And hooked a berry to a thread;Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

Answer
A
XAXB
B
XXAA
C
XAXA
D
XAAX

Explanation

The second line ends with “head,” and the fourth ends with “thread,” which rhyme. “Wood” and “wand” at the ends of the first and third lines do not rhyme, so those lines are marked X. The pattern is XAXA, choice C.

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