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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18)
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold
complexion dimmid;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

A) ABBA CDDC EFFE GG
B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
C) AABB CCDD EEFF GG
D) ABCB ABCB EFEF GG
E) AAAB CCCD EEEF GG

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Answer:

B

Step-by-step explanation:

Day and May- A

Temperate and Date- B

Dimmid and Untrimm'd -C

Shines and Declines- D

Fade and Shade- E

Owest and Grow'st- F

See and Thee- G

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