Question

Read the excerpt from "the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks.

He won’t be coming back here any more.
Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew
When he went walking grandly out that door
That my sweet love would have to be untrue.

What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?

aabb
abab
abac
abba

Answer 1

ANSWER:
abab

EXPLANATION:
Line one ends in more. Line two ends in knew. Line three ends in door. Line four ends in untrue.

More and door rhyme. Knew and untrue rhyme.

Therefore, you make more and door “a” and knew and untrue “b” because that’s the order they go in.

You have an abab rhyme scheme.