Question

What is the rhyme scheme in the following stanza of "The Raven"? "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,/Over many a quanit and curious volume of forgotten lore,/While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door..."
A. ABABBA
B. ABABBB
C. ABCBBB
D. ABCDDE

Answer 1

it might be helpful to look at the poem the way it was originally formatted

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”

the words to pay attention to are the last word in every line

weary
lore
tapping
door
door
more

label "weary" as A since that's a new rhyme, since "lore" doesn't rhyme with "weary" label lore as B since that's a new rhyme
"tapping" rhymes with neither A nor B so label "tapping" as C

you have ABC so far, try to keep going with the rest of the lines