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

Aaabb

Babba

Cabab

Daaab

Answer:

C. abab

Read Explanation:

  • “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.


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