Identify the correct rhyme scheme for each excerpt.
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Excerpt
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
(William Wordsworth, "The Solitary
Reaper")
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting
flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when
laid
In their noonday dreams.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Cloud")
And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
(William Blake, "A Poison Tree")
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
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