Read the excerpt from "Sonnet 29.” When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?

The line-ending words are “eyes,” “state,” “cries,” and “fate.” “Eyes” rhymes with “cries,” while “state” rhymes with “fate,” making the pattern ABAB. Therefore, the rhyme scheme is choice D, “abab.”

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