Determine the rhyme scheme of the following poem.

XII (From Fairie Queene, Book I, Canto 11)
But stings and sharpest steele did far exceed
The sharpnesse of his cruell rending clawes;
Dead was it sure, as sure as death in deed,
What ever thing does touch his ravenous pawes,
Or what within his reach he ever drawes.
But his most hideous head my toung to tell
Does tremble: for his deepe devouring jawes
Wide gaped, like the griesly mouth of hell,
Through which into his darke abisse all ravin fell.
—Edmund Spenser

Question

Determine the rhyme scheme of the following poem.

XII (From Fairie Queene, Book I, Canto 11) 
But stings and sharpest steele did far exceed	
The sharpnesse of his cruell rending clawes;	
Dead was it sure, as sure as death in deed,	
What ever thing does touch his ravenous pawes,	
Or what within his reach he ever drawes.	
But his most hideous head my toung to tell	
Does tremble: for his deepe devouring jawes	
Wide gaped, like the griesly mouth of hell,	
Through which into his darke abisse all ravin fell.	
—Edmund Spenser

mjdennis · Answer

Start with the 1st line:
But stings and sharpest steele did far exceed	-- "EED" sound is rhyme "A"

Line 2:  does "clawes" (claws) rhyme with "exceed"?  I don't think so; "AWS" sound is a new rhyme we will call "B"

Line 3:  final sound is "deed" -- does it match A or B or is it another sound and we start a new letter "C"?

Over to you.  After 2 lines we have a rhyme pattern AB...
Can you finish lines 7 through 9?