To an Athlete Dying Young (Poem)
What is the rhyme scheme in the poem, To an Athlete Dying Young?
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The rhyme scheme of To an Athlete Dying Young is highly regular throughout the body of the poem. Each four-line stanza, or quatrain, of the seven-stanza poem is made up of two rhyming couplets. In other words, each stanza follows an AABB rhyme scheme.
To an Athlete Dying Young