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Rhyme scheme?
"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on a distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom."
is the rhyme AAAB? in the third line it ends in "for" which doesnt rhyme but does it still rhyme even though the line doesnt finish in "hill"? Or is the rhyme AABC?
3 Answers
- Anonymous2 years ago
Where did you get your copy of this poem? If you look at the poem in the form in which it was originally published, the lines are not at all what your question says they are. They are much shorter, and "for" occurs at the beginning of one of them, not at the end of one.
So neither AAAB or AABC is correct. There are 8 lines in that stanza, not 4.
See https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged... for the actual text.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
The poem is actually set out as:
"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on a distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom."
You misplaced the 'for'.
