Question

What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza from “A Sybil” by Rilke?
Long before our time they called her old,
But she'd walk down the same road every day.
Her age became too much to say
In years — and, like a forest's, would be told



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Answer 1

Notice the words at the end of each stanza, in this order.

old
day
say
told

is in the fashion, a b b a

Answer 2

lol i mean each line* not stanza

Answer 3

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
“I dream of you to wake: would that I might
Dream of you and not wake but slumber on;
Nor find with dreams the dear companion gone,
As summer ended summer birds take flight.
In happy dreams I hold you full in sight,
I blush again who waking look so wan;
Brighter than sunniest day that ever shone,
In happy dreams your smile makes day of night.
Thus only in a dream we are at one,
Thus only in a dream we give and take
The faith that maketh rich who take or give;
If thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake,
To die were surely sweeter than to live,
Though there be nothing new beneath the sun.”



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