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Coached Example
Read the poem and answer the questions that follow.
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An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie
by Vachel Lindsay
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(IN THE BEGINNING)
The sun is a huntress young,
The sun is a red, red joy,
The sun is an Indian girl,
Of the tribe of the Illinois.
(MID-MORNING)
The sun is a smouldering fire,
That creeps through the high gray plain,
And leaves not a bush of cloud
To blossom with flowers of rain.
(NOON)
The sun is a wounded deer,
That treads pale grass in the skies,
Shaking his golden horns,
Flashing his baleful eyes.
(SUNSET)
The sun is an eagle old,
There in the windless west.
Atop of the spirit-cliffs
He builds him a crimson nest.
Which statement describes the rhyme scheme of the poem?
A. Every other line of the poem rhymes.
B.
The final two lines of each stanza rhyme.
C. The first and third lines of each stanza rhyme.
D. The second and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme.
Hint See if you can determine the rhyme scheme by using letters (e.g., abab) to map out the pattern of rhyming words.
