WAEC - Literature In English (2015 - No. 12)

Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep'st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke

The rhyme scheme of the stanza is
abcabcc
ababcdd
babacc
bcbccaa

Explanation

To determine the rhyme scheme, we look at the last words of each line and identify how they rhyme:

  1. thee (A)

  2. sing (B)

  3. free (A)

  4. spring (B)

  5. spake (C)

  6. broke (D)

  7. unyoke (D)

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