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You know that many poems have rhyming words or rhymes at the end of the lines in each stanza. The pattern of rhyming is usually shown with the help of small letters such as ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc. This pattern of rhyme is known as the rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme of each stanza in this poem is aabb. Verify.
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Solution
The rhyme pattern for each stanza in this poem is 'aabb', as the beginning and last lines end with words that rhyme. They are:
Stanza 1 = light - night, free - sea
Stanza 2 = call - all, drives - lives
Stanza 3 = grove - love, glee - sea
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