What is the rhyme scheme for sonnet 29?

Answer 1

Here's how you determine a rhyme scheme. You know what it means when words rhyme, right? They have the same vowel and consonant sound at the end. So we ignore all the words in the poem except the last one in each line.

1. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah EYES

2. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah STATE

3. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah CRIES

4. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah FATE

5. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah HOPE

6. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah POSESSED

7. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah SCOPE

8. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah LEAST

9. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah DESPISING

10. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah STATE

11. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ARISING

12. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah GATE

13. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah BRINGS

14. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah KINGS

OK. You take the first end-word, EYES, and call that rhyme A. You will note that the end-word for line 3, CRIES, also ends in rhyme A. Very good. Line 2's end-word is STATE which does not rhyme with EYES, so we call it rhyme B. And you will note that the end words of lines 4, 10 and 12 also have rhyme B. HOPE is rhyme C, and POSESSED is rhyme D. (For the purposes of this analysis, we should assume that LEAST rhymed with POSESSED in whatever weird accent Shakespeare spoke in, and so is also rhyme D. You can question this later if you want, but for now let's go with it).

Continue through to the end of the poem, and write down your results, with the line numbers 1:A 2:B 3:A 4:B 5:C 6:D and so on.

Now leave out the line numbers so you get a stream of letters ABABCDCD and so on. This is your rhyme scheme.

Answer 2

The rhyme scheme for Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 is ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Each letter represents a line that rhymes with others that share the same letter.

Answer 3

this specific poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme, it is a free verse.