Question

trevor has been asked to analyze the rhyme scheme in shakespeare’s “sonnet 18.”
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:
which is the correct rhyme scheme for this stanza?
○ aabb
○ abcd
○ abab
○ abcc

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme scheme, we label the end - words of each line. The first line ends with "shines", we label it 'a'. The second line ends with "dimm'd", we label it 'b'. The third line ends with "declines", which rhymes with "shines", so we label it 'a'. The fourth line ends with "untrimm'd", which rhymes with "dimm'd", so we label it 'b'. So the rhyme scheme is abab.

Answer:

C. abab