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Read the first stanza from "Perserverance" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe gold ears,
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.

What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?

A. ABAC
B. AABB
C. ABCB
D. ABAB

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5 votes

abab is the answer to you question

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User Htorque
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D. ABAB. Mowers rhymes with sowers and ears rhymes with tears.
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User Ken White
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