The Frailty And Hurtfulness Of Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABABABABBB| Brittle beauty that nature made so frail | A |
| Whereof the gift is small and short the season | B |
| Flow'ring today tomorrow apt to fail | A |
| Tickle treasure abhorr d of reason | B |
| Dangerous to deal with vain of none avail | A |
| Costly in keeping past not worth two peason | B |
| Slipper in sliding as is an eel s tail | A |
| Hard to obtain once gotten not geason | B |
| Jewel of jeopardy that peril doth assail | A |
| False and untrue entic d 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 |
Henry Howard
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