Determine the rhyme scheme of the following poem. XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne From year to year until I saw thy fac
e, And sorrow after sorrow took the place Of all those natural joys as lightly worn As the stringed pearls, each lifted in its turn By a beating heart at dance-time. Hopes apace Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn My heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring And let it drop adown thy calmly great Deep being! Fast it sinketh, as a thing Which its own nature doth precipitate, While thine doth close above it, mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.
When you want to determine the rhyme scheme of any poem, you should look only at the final word in each line. Based on that, you will know which lines rhyme, and which don't. In this case, the correct answer is ABBAABBACDCDCD. A rhymes with A (borne, worn, turn, forlorn); B rhymes with B (face, place, apace, grace); C rhymes with C (bring, thing, mediating); D rhymes with D (precipitate and fate).
