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Name the stanza form used in the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

ACouplets

BQuatrains

CTercets

DSestets

Answer:

B. Quatrains

Read Explanation:

  • The poem is written in four-line stanzas, or quatrains.

  • Each quatrain follows the rhyme scheme abab.

  • The poem is considered one of the best-known elegies in the English language.

  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is composed of heroic 32 stanzas, with the last three being an epitaph of 3 additional stanzas.


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