Sonnet Lxxix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBBCDCDEE| MEn call you fayre and you doe credit it | A |
| For that your selfe ye dayly such doe see | B |
| but the trew fayre that is the gentle wit | A |
| and vertuous mind is much more praysd of me | B |
| For all the rest how euer fayre it be | B |
| shall turne to nought and loose that glorious hew | C |
| but onely that is permanent and free | B |
| from frayle corruption that doth flesh ensew | B |
| That is true beautie that doth argue you | C |
| to be diuine and borne of heauenly seed | D |
| deriu'd from that fayre Spirit from whom al true | C |
| and perfect beauty did at first proceed | D |
| He only fayre and what he fayre hath made | E |
| all other fayre lyke flowres vntymely fade | E |
Edmund Spenser
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