Answer: I think the answer is maintaining
Explanation: This seems past tense so he ing prefix ing seems right
The Catcher in the Rye, novel by J.D. ... The novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, Holden searches for truth and rails against the “phoniness” of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally unstable.
This has the rhyme scheme of a hybrid sonnet, with the rhymes following:
abba abba cdcd ee
The first two stanzas follow the same rhyme pattern-abba abba-with the end words:
skies/face/place/tries
eyes/case/grace/decsries
Then the next quatrain begins a new, more Shakespearean format-cdcd-with the end words:
me/wit/be/yet
Finally, the rhyming couplet at the end finishes the sonnet with 'ee':
posesse/ungratefulnesse