Friday, August 5, 2011

Help with rhyme scheme in Shakespeare's Sonnet #20?

That third quatrain does fit the rhyme scheme, although created/defeated and a-doting/nothing are "slant rhymes" (also known as "off rhymes or "near rhymes" among other terms) rather than perfect rhymes. That is, the words don't rhyme with each other exactly, but sound similar enough that they can be considered rhymes.

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