Question

read the lines from shakespeares \sonnet 71.\ nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it; for i love you so, that i in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. the rhyme scheme in the excerpt that identifies the poem as a shakespearean sonnet is abba. bcbc. cdcd. defg.

Explanation:

Shakespearean sonnets have a rhyme - scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg for the whole sonnet. For a quatrain (a set of 4 lines like the given excerpt), the common rhyme - scheme is abab or cdcd. Here, the first and third lines don't rhyme with each other, and the second and fourth lines don't rhyme with each other. The first line's end - sound doesn't rhyme with the second, but the first rhymes with the third and the second with the fourth, which is a cdcd rhyme - scheme.

Answer:

C. cdcd