Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee,where the cotton blooms and blows.Why he left his home in the South to roam’round the Pole, God
only knows.He was always cold, but the land of goldseemed to hold him like a spell;Though he’d often say in his homely waythat he’d "sooner live in hell."Which best identifies the rhyme scheme of this stanza?a. abcbb. aabcc. ababd. aabb
The rhyme scheme is demonstrated as the rhyme pattern that the author uses at the end of each line/verse in a poem. The chief aim of employing rhyming patterns in a poem is to add rhythm, melody, and a musical effect to the poem and a form to it which is a key characteristic of a poem so that it grabs the readers' attention and make it convenient for them to remember and recite it.
In the given excerpt from the poem 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' by Robert W. Service, employs a rhyme scheme of 'AABB' as the first line of the stanza rhymes with the second as the last word 'blows' and 'knows' employ identical sound pattern while the third line rhymes with the fourth as reflected by similar sound pattern in 'spell' and 'hell'. Thus, <u>option D</u> is the correct answer.
