Question

sonnet 18
shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?
thou art more lovely and more temperate:
rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
and summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
and often is his gold complexion dimm’d,
and every fair from fair sometime declines,
by chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
but thy eternal summer shall not fade,
nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
when in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
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,

Explanation:

A Shakespearean sonnet's rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. The first twelve lines are grouped into three quatrains with abab, cdcd, efef rhyme schemes, and the final two lines (a couplet) have a gg rhyme scheme. Looking at the end of the sonnet: "grow'st" (line 12) and "thee" (line 14) – wait, let's check the last two lines. Line 13: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see," (rhyme with what? Line 14: "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." Wait, no, the standard Shakespearean sonnet (like Sonnet 18) has the final couplet with gg. Let's check the rhymes:

Line 1: day (a)
Line 2: temperate (b)
Line 3: May (a)
Line 4: date (b) → abab

Line 5: shines (c)
Line 6: dimm'd (d)
Line 7: declines (c)
Line 8: untrimm'd (d) → cdcd

Line 9: fade (e)
Line 10: ow'st (f)
Line 11: shade (e)
Line 12: grow'st (f) → efef

Line 13: see (g)
Line 14: thee (g) → gg

So the last part of the rhyme scheme after efef is gg. The question says "The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is abab, cdcd, efef, [blank]". So the blank should be gg.

Answer:

gg