Let’s examine the rhyme scheme by looking at the last words of each line in the first stanza:

1. Tell me not (sweet) I am unkinde,   → A

2. That from the Nunnerie         → B

3. of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, → A

4. To warre and Armes I flie.       → B

So the pattern is: A B A B

Now the second stanza:

1. True, a new Mistresse now I chase,   → A

2. The first Foe in the field;         → B

3. And with a stronger faith imbrace,   → A

4. A Sword, a Horse, a Shield.       → B

This also follows: C D C D

Same for the final stanza:

1. Yet this Inconstancy is such,      → A

2. As you too shall adore;        → B

3. I could not love thee (Deare) so much, → C

4. Lov’d I not Honour more.       → D

Rhyme pattern: E F E F

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The rhyme pattern is A. abab – The poem follows a consistent alternating rhyme pattern in each of the three stanzas