Determine the rhyme scheme of the following poem. don't forget to consider slant rhyme or eye rhyme. on the grasshopper and cricket by john keats the poetry of earth is never dead: when all the birds are faint with the hot sun, and hide in cooling trees, a voice will run from hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; that is the grasshopper's—he takes the lead in summer luxury,—he has never done with his delights; for when tired out with fun he rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. the poetry of earth is ceasing never: on a lone winter evening, when the frost has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills the cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, and seems to one in drowsiness half lost, the grasshopper's among some grassy hills. december 30, 1816

The rhyme scheme in the poem is: a b b a a b b a  c d e c d e.

There is no end couplet, which makes this poem a Petrarchan sonnet.

Petrarchan sonnet consists of fourteen lines, the first eight lines (also called octave) follow the scheme: a b b a a b b a, and the rhyme scheme of the following six lines (also called sestet) may vary.  

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explanation:

in other words

to put it differently

for one thing

as an illustration

in this case

for this reason

to put it another way

that is to say

with attention to

by all means

important to realize

another key point

first thing to remember

most compelling evidence

must be remembered

point often overlooked

to point out

on the positive side

on the negative side

with this in mind

notably

including

like

to be sure

namely

chiefly

truly

indeed

certainly

surely

markedly

such as

especially

explicitly

specifically

expressly

surprisingly

frequently

significantly

particularly

in fact

in general

in particular

in detail

for example

for instance

to demonstrate

to emphasize

to repeat

to clarify

to explain

to enumerate