<em>The rhyme scheme that is used in the excerpt form Richard Lovelace’s “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” is “abab”.
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When writing poetry, the lines in the stanza has to end in rhyme. In this case, the excerpt’s first stanza the rhymes are “a: unkind-mind” and “nunnery-fly”. Richard Lovelace was an English writer. He wrote the poem “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” is 1649. It refers to a man who goes to war, leaving behind a lover.
