Sonnet Iv* Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEDEEFEFGG| The antique Babel empresse of the East | A |
| Upreard her buildinges to the threatned skie | B |
| And second Babell tyrant of the West | C |
| Her ayry towers upraised much more high | D |
| But with the weight of their own surquedry | E |
| They both are fallen that all the earth did feare | E |
| And buried now in their own ashes ly | D |
| Yet shewing by their heapes how great they were | E |
| But in their place doth now a third appeare | E |
| Fayre Venice flower of the last worlds delight | F |
| And next to them in beauty draweth neare | E |
| But farre exceedes in policie of right | F |
| Yet not so fayre her buildinges to behold | G |
| As Lewkenors stile that hath her beautie told | G |
Edmund Spenser
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