Question

Which rhyme scheme is used in this excerpt from Richard Lovelace's "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"?

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind
To war and arms I fly.

abcd
aabb
abab
abbb

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

It should be abab. Throughout the entire poem, each stanza follows the same rhyme scheme. In each stanza the first line rhymes with the third and the second with the fourth.