What type of rhyme is used in this excerpt from William Butler Yeats's poem "The Municipal Gallery Revisited"? My mediaeval knees lack health until they bend, But in that woman, in that household where Honour had lived so long, all lacking found. Childless I thought, 'My children may find here Deep-rooted things,' but never foresaw its end, And now that end has come I have not wept; No fox can foul the lair the badger swept --

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MsLit
The rhyme scheme in this excerpt, if you take into consideration slant rhyme (near rhyme, words that don't exactly match but have a similar vowel sound or end sound) is: ABABACC
Words that end each line are assigned a letter from the alphabet, starting with A, then every line that ends in the same rhyme also gets an A, and different rhymes get the next letter.

The ending words of each of these lines are:
bend (A)
where (B, because it doesn't rhyme with bend)
found (A, with slant rhyme-the 'nd' ending creates a similar sound to bend)
here (B, because it is a slant or near rhyme to where)
end (A, true rhyme to bend)
wept (C, because it's an entirely new sound)
swept (C, because it rhymes with wept)