If you can dream – and not make dreams your

Question

master;

If you can think – and not make thoughts your
aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to,
broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out
tools

—“If,”
Rudyard Kipling

What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza of the poem?

A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D
A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D
A, B, C, B, A, B, C, B
A, B, B, A, C, D, D, C

Answer 1

The rhyme scheme of the stanza you provided from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" is:

A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D

Here’s the breakdown:

• dream (A)
• master (A)
• aim (B)
• same (B)
• spoken (C)
• fools (C)
• broken (D)
• tools (D)

So the correct answer is A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D.