Sonnet I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCCDCDEF| HAppy ye leaues when as those lilly hands | A |
| which hold my life in their dead doing might | B |
| shall handle you and hold in loues soft bands | A |
| lyke captiues trembling at the victors sight | B |
| And happy lines on which with starry light | B |
| those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look | C |
| and reade the sorrowes of my dying spright | B |
| written with teares in harts close bleeding book | C |
| And happy rymes bath'd in the sacred brooke | C |
| of Helicon whence she deriued is | D |
| when ye behold that Angels blessed looke | C |
| my soules long lacked foode my heauens blis | D |
| Leaues lines and rymes seeke her to please alone | E |
| whom if ye please I care for other none | F |
Edmund Spenser
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