Whenever we think of rhyme schemes in a poem we normally map
them by matching a letter to particular rhyme for the duration of the poem and seeing how it
continues. Therefore to give you a simple example, a poem which said "There was a boy called Jack
/ Who lived in a great big shack" would have the rhyme scheme of AA because of the same rhyme in
"Jack" and "shack." At every different rhyme, a new letter is
added.
So, thinking about the second stanza, there is a definite
rhyme in "fumbling," "stumbling," and "drowning" and likewise a different rhyme is present in
"time" and "lime." The penultimate line is unique in not having a rhyme that matches it anywhere
else. Thus the rhyme scheme of the second stanza can be described as: ABABCA. A matches the
"-ing" words and B matches the "-ime" words. C of course stands for the line ending with
"light."
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