Answer:
The correct answer is: It is made up of a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd.
Explanation:
In this sonnet, Shakespeare describes chronicles which contain some beautiful descriptions of the past where he notice the beauty of the youth and the young man.
The syntax of the Sonnet 106 is characterised by a specific rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, as we can see from the excerpt above. In this excerpt, the first line is rhyming with the third (<em>time </em>rhymes with <em>rhyme</em>), the second line rimes with the fourth (<em>wights </em>rhymes with <em>knights</em>), etc.
When in the chronicle of wasted <u>time</u>
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old <u>rhyme</u>,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's <u>best</u>
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have <u>express'd</u>
Even such a beauty as you master now.
The answer is allegory, since allegory is a rhetorical device that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures in a literary piece which create the meaning the author wants to portray. It is in a form of story or poem and the meaning could be political or moral, depending on the author's true meaning.
