Question

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

• A. aabb
• B. abba
• C. abab
• D. aaab

Answer 1

Answer:

C. abab

• “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is written in four-line stanzas, or quatrains. Each quatrain follows the rhyme scheme abab.

• The meter of each line is iambic pentameter, meaning five iambs (an iamb is a two-syllable foot where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable) per line.