The rhyme scheme of Sonnet 4 by Edmund Spenser is ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. Since, the first eight lines of the sonnet have a rhyme scheme of ABAB BCBC, while the last six lines have a rhyme scheme of CDCD EE. The first and third lines of each quatrain rhyme, while the second and fourth lines of each quatrain have a different rhyme. The final couplet has a rhyming couplet (EE).