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If
by Rudyard Kipling

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

Question
Use the lines to answer the question.

What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?

(1 point)
Responses

ABABCDCD
ABABCDCD

ABBACDDC
ABBACDDC

ABCBABCD
ABCBABCD

ABBACDCD
ABBACDCD

1 answer

To determine the rhyme scheme of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, we can analyze the end words of each line:

  1. virtue (A)
  2. touch (B)
  3. hurt you (A)
  4. much (B)
  5. minute (C)
  6. run (D)
  7. it (C)
  8. son (D)

The pattern corresponds to ABABCDCD.

Therefore, the correct response is:

ABABCDCD