Question

Identify the rhyme scheme of following verses:
Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary,
Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
Without believing a word.

Tie the white fillets then about your hair
And think no more of what will come to pass
Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass
And chattering on the air.
A. abba cddc
B. abab cdcd
C. abba cdcd
D. aaabb ccdd

Answer 1

Hint: A rhyme is a pattern or scheme used by a writer to add a rhythm or poetic effect to the context. It is mainly used to rhyme lines in poems.

Complete answer:
A rhymes' scheme is used at the end of each and every line to make a rhythm in the following verse. It can be determined by identification of the word mentioned at the end of consecutive lines. For the given verse, the rhyming can be seen in the end of each sentence that is sward-word, pass-grass. Therefore, if we give "a" to "sward" in the first paragraph then rhyming word "word" will also be given "a'' and "seminary" and "contrary" would be given "b". In the next paragraph if word "hair is defined as "c" then word "air" will also be defined as "c" and "pass" "grass" will be defined as d. According to this the correct rhyming order will be abba cddc .Option A is a correct option. Option B is abab cdcd is an incorrect option because this does not comply with the rhyme formed in passage. Option C is abba cdcd is an incorrect option because rhyming of first paragraph is given appropriately but second paragraph is not appropriate. Option D is aaabb ccdd is an incorrect option because the given rhyming is inappropriate.

Note:
Rhyming sequence and the number of letters given should match the number of lines in the passage and should be appropriate.