Brittle Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCABDEFABABBBB| Brittle beauty that nature made so frail | A |
| Whereof the gift is small and short the season | B |
| Flowering today tomorrow apt to fail | A |
| Tickle | C |
| treasure abhorred of reason fragile | C |
| Dangerous to deal with vain of none avail | A |
| Costly in keeping passed not worth two peason | B |
| peas | D |
| Slipper | E |
| in sliding as is an eel's tail slippery | F |
| Jewel of jeopardy that peril doth assail | A |
| False and untrue enticed oft to treason | B |
| Enemy to youth that most may I bewail | A |
| Ah bitter sweet infecting as the poison | B |
| Thou farest as fruit that with the frost is taken | B |
| Today ready ripe tomorrow all to shaken | B |
| broken | B |
Henry Howard
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