Question

Read the following lines from the poem you have studied and answer the question given below.

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
And, what is more, you'll be a man, my son"

Bring out the rhyme scheme used in these lines.

Answer 1

As 'minute' rhymes with 'in it' and 'run' with 'son', the rhyme scheme is ABAB.