Question

read \the eagle\ by alfred, lord tennyson. he clasps the crag with crooked hands, close to the sun in lonely lands, ringd with the azure world, he stands. the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls. what is the rhyme scheme of the poem? aaa aaa aab aab aaa bbb aba bab

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme scheme, label the end - sound of the first line as 'a'. Then, if subsequent lines rhyme with the first, they are also labeled 'a'; if they have a new end - sound, they are given a new label. In "The Eagle", the end - sounds of the first and second lines are the same ('hands', 'lands'), so they are both 'a'. The end - sounds of the third and fourth lines are the same ('stands', 'crawls'), so they are both 'b'. The end - sounds of the fifth and sixth lines are the same ('walls', 'falls'), so they are both 'a' again.

Answer:

aab aab