Sonnet Xvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCCDCDDD| THe glorious portraict of that Angels face | A |
| Made to amaze weake mens confused skil | B |
| and this worlds worthlesse glory to embase | A |
| what pen what pencill can expresse her fill | B |
| For though he colours could deuize at will | B |
| and eke his learned hand at pleasure guide | C |
| least trembling it his wormanship should spill | B |
| yet many wondrous things there are beside | C |
| The sweet eye glaunces that like arrowes glide | C |
| the charming smiles that rob sence from the hart | D |
| the louely pleasance and the lofty pride | C |
| cannot expressed be by any art | D |
| A greater craftesmans hand thereto doth neede | D |
| that can expresse the life of things indeed | D |
Edmund Spenser
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