Question

read the stanza from \the battle of blenheim.\
it was a summer evening,
old kaspar’s work was done,
and he before his cottage door
was sitting in the sun,
and by him sported on the green
his little grandchild wilhelmine.
what is the rhyme scheme in this stanza?
○ abbccd
○ abcbdd
○ abbcbd
○ abacbd

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme scheme, we assign a letter to each line based on its end - rhyme.

• Line 1: "evening" → A
• Line 2: "done" → B (doesn't rhyme with "evening")
• Line 3: "door" → C (doesn't rhyme with "evening" or "done")
• Line 4: "sun" → B (rhymes with "done")
• Line 5: "green" → D (doesn't rhyme with A, B, or C)
• Line 6: "Wilhelmine" → D (rhymes with "green")

So the rhyme scheme is ABCBDD.

Answer:

B. ABCBDD