identifying rhyme scheme

read the first six lines of donnes \holy sonnet 14.\ if the first line is identified as \a\ in the rhyme scheme, how should the remaining lines be identified?

batter my heart, three-persond god; for you
as yet but knock; breathe, shine, and see
that i may rise, and stand, oerthrow me,
your force, to break, blow, burn, and mak
i, like an usurpd town, to another due,
labour to admit you, but o, to no end.

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identifying rhyme scheme

read the first six lines of donnes \holy sonnet 14.\ if the first line is identified as \a\ in the rhyme scheme, how should the remaining lines be identified?

batter my heart, three-persond god; for you
as yet but knock; breathe, shine, and see
that i may rise, and stand, oerthrow me,
your force, to break, blow, burn, and mak
i, like an usurpd town, to another due,
labour to admit you, but o, to no end.

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Analyze the end words of each line

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