This question is based on Literary Appreciation. "Lonely road, Not a star Lonely road Shadows far And quiet" Peter Abraham Lonely Road. The rhyme scheme in...

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To determine the rhyme scheme, we need to examine the endings of each line in the stanza. A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. We represent it with letters, assigning the same letter to lines that rhyme with each other and a different letter to those that don't.

Let's look at the provided poem excerpt:

- Lonely road,

- Not a star

- Lonely road

- Shadows far

- And quiet

Now, let's break it down:

• The ending word of the first line is "road." We can mark it with the letter A.
• The second line ends with "star," which does not rhyme with "road," so we mark it with B.
• The third line ends with "road." This rhymes with the first line, so we again mark it with A.
• The fourth line ends with "far," which rhymes with the second line "star." We mark it with B.
• The fifth line ends with "quiet," which does not rhyme with any of the above lines, so we mark it with C.

Thus, the rhyme scheme for the excerpt is: ababc.