A Sonnet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC AADDCC EFGHCC IIIICC IIJJCC| Flattering Hope away and leave me | A |
| She'll not come thou dost deceive me | A |
| Hark the cock crows th' envious light | B |
| Chides away the silent night | B |
| Yet she comes not oh how I tire | C |
| Betwixt cold fear and hot desire | C |
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| Here alone enforced to tarry | A |
| While the tedious minutes marry | A |
| And get hours those days and years | D |
| Which I count with sighs and fears | D |
| Yet she comes not oh how I tire | C |
| Betwixt cold fear and hot desire | C |
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| Restless thoughts a while remove | E |
| Unto the bosom of my love | F |
| Let her languish in my pain | G |
| Fear and hope and fear again | H |
| Then let her tell me in love's fire | C |
| What torment's like unto desire | C |
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| Endless wishing tedious longing | I |
| Hopes and fears together thronging | I |
| Rich in dreams yet poor in waking | I |
| Let her be in such a taking | I |
| Then let her tell me in love's fire | C |
| What torment's like unto desire | C |
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| Come then Love prevent day's eyeing | I |
| My desire would fain be dying | I |
| Smother me with breathless kisses | J |
| Let me dream no more of blisses | J |
| But tell me which is in Love's fire | C |
| Best to enjoy or to desire | C |
Francis Beaumont
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