Read the following poem “Harlem: A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes and answer the question that follows.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
What is this poem’s rhyme scheme?
A.
ABCDEFGHIJJ
B.
ABCCDDEEFFG
C.
ABCDCEFEGHH
D.
ABCDCDEFEFF
