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.

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