John's eyes were bad, and he peered to see the fog.
The rhyme schemes of the sonnet follow two basic patterns. (1) The Italian sonnet (also called the Petrarchan sonnet after the most influential of the Italian sonneteers) comprises an 8-line 'octave' of two quatrains, rhymed abbaabba, followed by a 6-line 'sestet' usually rhymed cdecde or cdcdcd. So false
The missing word is a verb.
Simply choose an appropriate verb that makes sense.
Examples:
placed
pushed
will move