Question

Print out or copy the poem and mark the rhyme scheme. What is the pattern of rhyme?

Answer 1

See', 'be', and 'tree' all have the same rhyming sound, that long e, and so they fall under the A, because the long e sound is present first in the poem. As for B, you make a word the B in a rhyme scheme when it completes the phrase when A did not. If the second line had ended with something with a long e as its final sound, then you would have not gone on to B, but kept A. Since 'hear' does not rhyme with 'see', it is counted as B. The third and fourth lines go back to the long e sound we have denoted as A, and then the fifth line brings us back to B, because near rhymes with 'hear'. Every stanza holds this rhyming scheme.