Read the poem. Skimming the bottom In the company of toes, I observe the deep end Though nobody knows. In the depths, I am bold, On the surface—shy. My goggles transform me: An underwater spy. What is the poem’s rhyme scheme? aabb abab abcb abcd

Explanation: To determinate the rhyme scheme of a poem we need to pay attention to the ending sound of each line and we need to assign the same letter to similar sounds and different letters to different sounds. In the given poem, we have that the second and last lines end with similar sounds: "toes" and "knows" and the first and third lines end with different sounds: "bottom" and "end", and the second verse is also like that (second and last lines: "shy" and "spy" and the first and third lines are different: "bold" and "me"). So the rhyme scheme would be ABCB.

jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2021-12-22T17:43:04+01:00

The answer choice which best reflects the poem’s rhyme scheme is:

C) ABCB.

According to the given question, we are asked to state the answer choice which best reflects the poem’s rhyme scheme.

As a result of this, we can see that rhyme scheme has to do with the way the poet makes his lines to rhyme in either ABAB where the first and second lines rhyme.

With this in mind, we can see that from the given poem, there is the use of ABCB rhyme scheme which rhymes the first and second lines and then there's a different rhyme from the third and fourth lines.

Therefore, the correct answer is option C