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Read the first six lines of Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14." If the first line is identified as "a" in the rhyme scheme, how should the remaining lines be identified? Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. 1, like an usurp'd town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.​

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Answer:B,B,A,AB

Explanation:just got it right on edge :)

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Answer and Explanation:

What this question asks us to do is identify the rhyme scheme of the six lines. To do that, we need to look at the last word of each line and classify is final sound. The last word of the first line is always identified with the letter A. If that word's sound appears again in another line's last word, then it should be labeled A again. If other sounds appear, then we use the other letters of the alphabet to label them. Let's take a look at the lines given for analysis:

Batter my heart, three-person's God; for you A

As yet by knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; B

That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me and bend B

Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. A

I, like an usurp'd town, to another due, A

Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. B

The first final word, which is labeled A, is "you". The other final words which have the same final sound are "new" and "due", so they are also labeled A. The first word with a sound different than "you" is "mend", so it is labeled B. The other final words with the same sound as "mend" are "bend" and "end", so they are also labeled B. Since they appear sequenced as "you, mend, bend, new, due, end", the rhyme scheme is ABBAAB.

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