Excerpted from "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A whisper, and then a silence:

Yet I know by their merry eyes

They are plotting and planning together

To take me by surprise.


A sudden rush from the stairway,

A sudden raid from the hall!

By three doors left unguarded

They enter my castle wall!




Look carefully at the lines above. A poem with this particular rhyme scheme is best read


A. line by line.

B. with long pauses.

C. phrase by phrase.

D. with a strong rhythm.