Determine the rhyme scheme of the following poem.

Sonnet V

by William Shakespeare

Options: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h

Those hours that with gentle work did frame:

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell:

Will play the tyrants to the very same,:

And that unfair which fairly doth excel:

For never-resting time leads summer on:

To hideous winter and confounds him there,:

Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,:

Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:

Then were not summer's distillation left:

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,:

Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft.:

Answer: The rhyme scheme of the poem is, ABAB, CDCD, EFEF.

Explanation:

Rhyme schemes are the patterns of a line that are designed in such a way that they rhyme with each other. For example, the words game and same are rhyming words. In 'Sonnet 5' William Shakespeare have used ABAB, CDCD, EFEF rhyme scheme.

The first line of the poem ends with 'frame' (A). The second line end with the word 'dwell' (B). The third line end with 'same' (A), while the fourth line ends with 'excel' (B). Thus making it ABAB rhyme.

Similarly, the other lines (on-gone, there-where) make the CDCD rhyme scheme and so on.