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

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme - scheme, label the end - sound of the first line as 'A'. The word "young" in the first line has a certain end - sound. The second line's end - word "gray" has a different end - sound, so it's labeled 'X'. The third line's end - word "decay" rhymes with "gray", so it's also 'X'. The fourth line's end - word "tongue" has a different end - sound from the others, so it's 'A'. So the rhyme scheme is AXAX.

Answer:

D. AXAX