Question

read this excerpt from the song of wandering aengus by william butler yeats. i went out to the hazel wood, because a fire was in my head, and cut and peeled a hazel wand, and hooked a berry to a thread. which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza? xaxb xxaa xaxa xaax

Explanation:

The first and third lines do not rhyme (marked as X), and the second and fourth lines rhyme (marked as A). So the rhyme - scheme is XAXA.

Answer:

C. XAXA