Read these lines from "Bond and Free" by Robert Frost. Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about – Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought has need of no such things, For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. Which rhyme scheme is used in this stanza? A B B A A A A A B A A A B B B A A A B B

The rhyme scheme being used in these lines is: A B B A A

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme scheme in a poem, we must look at the last word of each line. The last word of the very first line of the poem is called "A", for classification purposes. When other last words sound similar to it, they are also "A". When they sound different, we give them other letters following the alphabet - b, c, d etc. - every time a new rhyme appears. So:

Love has earth to which she clings A

With hills and circling arms about – B

Wall within wall to shut fear out. B

But Thought has need of no such things, A

For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. A

A--> clings, things, wings

B--> about, out

wheres the following authors?

wallop

to hot or strike with a hand blow

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