Your mother Eire is always young,

Dew ever shining and twilight gray;

Though hope fall from you or love decay,

Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.

Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

ABAB

AABB

ABBA

AXAX

The correct answer is ABBA

Explanation:

Rhyme occurs when there are similar or the same sounds in a poem. Moreover, a rhyme scheme occurs when the same sounds are repeated at the end of verses in a stanza (groups of verses). This can be identified if you use letters from A to Z to mark the same sounds. In this way, in the stanza presented the scheme is ABBA as shown below:

Your mother Eire is always young, (A)

Dew ever shining and twilight gray; (B)

Though hope fall from you or love decay, (B)

Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. (A)

Considering "young" and "tongue" rhyme and these verses should be marked with A, while "gray" and "decay" rhyme and should be marked with B.

This one is an abba, if you want to know an easy way to tell the last word rhymes with another word so when you come to the end of a line start with A then read the next if the word at the end rhymes it is also A but if it doesn't make it B and so on.

Example:

tree A

root B

bee A

boot B