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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.


In the first lines from Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare, what is the rhyme scheme?


cdcd


ghgh


efef


abab

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The rhyme scheme is 

abab

Answer:

In the first lines from Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare, the rhyme scheme is abab.

Explanation:

The sonnets written by Shakespeare have three quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg. The sonnets have been written in iambic pentameter. After the third quatrain, a volta appears which shows a turn or change of thought in the sonnet.

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