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Which of the following poems most clearly uses its rhyme scheme to defy the reader's expectations?

AFrom my window I spy / a singing, perching magpie.
BRoses are red, / violets are blue, / weekdays are long, / and weekends are few.
CTo gather some wood / would be oh so good / but I'm not in the mood.
DI see around you a corona of autumn leaves, / but then I think of death!

Verified Answer :

Cto gather some wood, would be oh so good, but I'm not in the mood

A rhyme scheme follows a pattern of sounds and intonation which are alike. The final letters in a line have to share the the same letters. This convention is present in option C where we can read the words "wood", "good" and "mood", which share the same pattern. Additionally, the sound of the vowel "o" in between the words makes the lines melodic, e.g. "oh so good".