Reread the first six lines of the sonnet. If the first line is identified as “a” in the rhyme scheme, how should the remaining lines be identified?

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✔ b; Thou art more lovely and more temperate:: b; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,: a; And summer's lease hath all too short a date:: b; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,: c; And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,: d

Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm in a Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Reread the first six lines of the sonnet. If the first line is identified as “a” in the rhyme scheme, how should the remaining lines be identified?

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