Question

14. This question is based on the following poem.

   1 Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
   2 Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
   3 Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
   4 Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.

(Laugh and Be Merry/John Masefield/Public Domain)

What is the rhyme pattern in this stanza?

A. All four lines have the same ending rhyme.
B. First and second lines rhyme; third and fourth rhyme.
C. First and third lines rhyme; second and fourth lines rhyme.
D. There is no rhyme pattern in this stanza.


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Answer 1

The answer is B first and second lines rhyme; third and fourth rhyme.

Answer 2

The Rhyming pattern for this poem is AABB, so the answer is B. the first and second lines rhyme and the third and fourth lines rhyme.