Read the first stanza from "perseverance" by johann wolfgang von goethe: we must not hope to be mowers, and to gather the ripe gold ears, unless we have first been sowers and watered the furrows with tears. what is the rhyme scheme of the stanza? a b a b a a b b a b a c a b c b

A B A B is your answer :)

b. and i with my fighting heart, i thought at

first / to steal up to him [the cyclops].   the cyclops’ actions first odysseus to take

action after killing his men and trapping in the cave revealed his intent of

doing them harm.   that is why odysseus

blinded him to enable him and his men to escape.