JAMB - Literature In English (2010 - No. 13)
These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer,
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Time still succeeds the former.
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer,
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Time still succeeds the former.
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is
aabb
abab
abba
bbaa
Explanation
Line 1 ... first (a)
Line 2 ... warmer (b)
Line 3 ... worst (a)
Line 4 ... former (b)
Line 2 ... warmer (b)
Line 3 ... worst (a)
Line 4 ... former (b)
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