Question

Read this excerpt from “Into the Twilight” by William Butler Yeats.

Your mother Eire is always young,
Dew ever shining and twilight gray;
Though hope fall from you or love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.

Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

ABAB
AABB
ABBA
AXAX

Answer 1

young
gray
decay
tongue

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Answer 2

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@Laylalyssa

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Welcome to QuestionCove! So to begin the first line is A, the second is B, the third is A again, and the 4th is B again. Now, since we know this, we can eliminate option D because it doesn't even have a "B" in it. You can also get rid of option B and this is because whne we follow the AABB rhyme scheme, young/decay have to rhyme, and gray/tongue, and clearly, they do not. Now, for the last two choices, we need to find which words rhyme.
Now let's look.
Do young and gray rhyme? do decay and tongue rhyme? (ABAB)
or
do young/tongue and gray/decay rhyme? (ABBA)