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Question
Write the Rhyming word and Scheme of the 1st stanza.
A pilgrim, going a lone high way
Came at evening, cold and gray
To a chasm, deep and vast and wide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim.
The chasm held no fear for him.
But he paused when he reached the other side And built a bridge to span the tide.
Solution
Rhyming word = way - gray / wide-side - tide / dim - him.
AABCCBB is called the Rhyme Scheme of the 1st stanza of the poem 'The Pilgrim'.
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