The rhyme scheme for the stanza you provided from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" is abab.
Here’s the breakdown:
- "shines" (a)
- "dimmed" (b)
- "declines" (a)
- "untrimm'd" (b)
So the correct answer is abab.
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
1 answer
The rhyme scheme for the stanza you provided from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" is abab.
Here’s the breakdown:
So the correct answer is abab.