Which of the following poems uses terza rima?

1. AKeats's 'Ode to a Nightingale'
2. BShelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'
3. CWordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper'
4. DTennyson's 'Ulysses'

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Correct answer: B. Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'

Explanation

Each of the five sections of 'Ode to the West Wind' (1820) has four tercets in Dante's terza rima (aba bcb cdc ded) closed by a couplet. 'Ulysses' is blank verse; Keats's ode uses ten-line stanzas.