Question

What is the rhyme pattern of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130?

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

A) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg
B) abba, abba, cddc, ee
C) abab, abab, cde, cde
B) abab, cdcd, efef, gg

Answer 1

D) abab, cdcd, efef, gg

In first stanza, it is abab, then in other, it is different, so we can call it as cdcd, again, efef in next and in last two lines, they are game so the same alphabet, means gg.

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Answer 2

d. for all plato users