Read the excerpt below and answer the question. On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the w
old and meet the sky; And through the field the road runs by To many-towered Camelot And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. (“The Lady of Shalott”; lines 1–9) This opening stanza of the poem sets its rhyme scheme as
A:a, a, a, b, b, c, c, c, b
B:a, a, b, b, c, c, d, d, d
C:a, a, a, a, b, c, c, c, b
D:a, a, a, b, b, b, c, c, c