Question

question 8(multiple choice worth 2 points) (05.02 mc) read the first stanza of the ballad \paul reveres ride\ by henry wadsworth longfellow. then, answer the question that follows listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of paul revere, on the eighteenth of april, in seventy - five hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year what is the rhyme scheme of this stanza? 11221 abcda aabba 112342

Explanation:

In poetry, the rhyme - scheme is determined by assigning the same letter to lines that rhyme. Here, "hear" and "Revere" rhyme (assigned 'A'), "Five" and "alive" rhyme (assigned 'B'), and the last line rhymes with the first two (assigned 'A'). So the rhyme - scheme is AABBA.

Answer:

C. AABBA