Question

read the excerpt from \sonnet 29\ when, in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes, i all alone beweep my outcast state, and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, and look upon myself, and curse my fate, what is the rhyme scheme of these lines? abab abba abcb abac

Explanation:

Rhyme scheme is determined by the end - rhymes of lines. "eyes" and "cries" rhyme (assigned 'a'), "state" and "fate" rhyme (assigned 'b'). So the pattern is abab.

Answer:

A. abab