Also in “Sonnet 18” another type of rhyme is a couplet. Another example of rhyme scheme is in lines 5-8 where it says, Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold complexion dimm’d and every fair from fair sometime declines, by chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d … This is displaying a cdcd rhyme scheme format where shines and declines is “c” and dimm’d and untrimm’d is “d” This type of writing shows how the light of summer and of beauty will decline one day. By the connection of these lines it shows his love that she is a beautiful as a summer’s day.
This is an example of an abab rhyme scheme format where day and May and “a” and temperate and date are “b.” This type of writing adds to that theme of the writer’s love for his wife. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date:…
