The correct answers are A. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg, and E. The regular rhyme scheme makes the sonnet sound musical and memorable.
Explanation:
In poems, rhyme is determined by the repetition of sounds, this includes vowel or consonant sounds. Additionally, in poems it is common rhyme follows a specific structure, and this creates a special effect. Besides this, most sonnets include four stanzas, the first three stanzas area quatrains because they include four verses, while the last is a couplet or stanza with two verses.
In the case of the sonnet presented, the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg because rhyme occurs in every other verse except by the couple in which there is a rhyme in two sequential lines. In this way, there is a rhyme in the words long and song (line 1 and 3), might and light (line 2 and 4), redeem and esteem (line 5 and 7), spent and argument ( line 6 and 8), survey and decay (line 9 and 11), there and where (line 10 and 12), and life and knife (line 13 and 14). Besides this, this pattern creates a regular cadency that makes the poem sound musical and be memorable, as the repetition makes the reader remember previous verses.
