NEED HELP PLEASE The retricerian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
what is the rhyme scheme of the above lines
A. abab
B. aabb
C. aabc
D. abaa
fold
gold
sea
Galilee
What pattern do you hear there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme
To determine the rhyme scheme of a poem, you need to analyze the pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line. Let's examine the given lines:
The retricerian came down like the wolf on the fold, (A)
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; (B)
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, (A)
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. (B)
By assigning a different letter to each line that rhymes, we can see that the rhyme scheme is ABAB. So, the correct answer is:
A. abab