Question

\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 dimmed,
and every fair from fair sometime declines,
by chance, or natures changing course untrimmed;
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.
analyze the rhyme scheme in these lines from \sonnet 18.\
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.
which is the correct rhyme scheme?
options: ababcc, ababab, abcabc, aabbcc

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme scheme, we analyze the end - rhymes of each line. Line 1: "fade" (let's assign 'a'), Line 2: "ow'st" (assign 'b'), Line 3: "shade" (assign 'a'), Line 4: "grow'st" (assign 'b'), Line 5: "see" (assign 'c'), Line 6: "thee" (assign 'c'). So the rhyme scheme is ababcc.

Answer:

ababcc