Question

language arts 9 s2 25/26
rhyme scheme and rhythm in a sonnet by william shakespeare
\sonnet 18\
shall i compare thee to a summers day?
thou art more lovely and more temperate:
rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
and summers lease hath all too short a date:
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
and often is his gold complexion dimmd,
and every fair from fair sometime declines,
by chance, or natures changing course untrimmd:
but thy eternal summer shall not fade,
nor lose possession of that fair thou owst,
nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade,
when in eternal lines to time thou growst,
so long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
enter your answer in the box.
the rhyme scheme of a shakespearean sonnet is abab,
cdcd, efef, blank.

Explanation:

A Shakespearean sonnet typically has a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, and then gg for the final two lines (the couplet). Looking at the last two lines of "Sonnet 18": "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." The words "see" and "thee" rhyme, following the gg pattern for the couplet.

Answer:

gg