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Rhyme, Rhythm, and Visualizing in a Yeats Poem

Question 2 • SS-English Language Arts 7

Read this excerpt from “Into the Twilight” by William Butler Yeats.And God stands winding his lonely horn,And time and the world are ever in flight;And love is less kind than the gray twilight,And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

Answer
A
ABAB
B
ABBA
C
AABB
D
AXAX

Explanation

The first line ends with “horn,” and the fourth ends with “morn,” so those lines rhyme. The second line ends with “flight,” and the third with “twilight,” so those lines rhyme with each other. The pattern is ABBA, choice B.

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