Question

Choose the rhyme scheme of Sidney's "Sonnet XXXI."

abab abba cd cd ee
abba abba cd cd ee
abba cdcd cdcd ee
aabb bbaa cd cd ee

Answer 1

abba abba cd cd ee

Step-by-step explanation:

Sir Phillip Sydney's (1554 - 1586) "Sonnet XXXI" is from "Astrophil and Stella" (his collection of sonnets).

Most of Sydney's sonnets follow the traditional Petrarchan rhyme scheme (named after the Italian sonneteer Petrarch). However, Sir Phillip Sydney used a different rhyme scheme created by himself in Sonnet 31. The rhyme scheme of this sonnet (31) is abba abba cd cd ee.