A Sonnet To Heavenly Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABBA DDEFFE| If this our little life is but a day | A |
| In the Eternal if the years in vain | B |
| Toil after hours that never come again | C |
| If everything that hath been must decay | A |
| Why dreamest thou of joys that pass away | A |
| My soul that my sad body doth restrain | B |
| Why of the moment s pleasure art thou fain | B |
| Nay thou hast wings nay seek another stay | A |
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| There is the joy whereto each soul aspires | D |
| And there the rest that all the world desires | D |
| And there is love and peace and gracious mirth | E |
| And there in the most highest heavens shalt thou | F |
| Behold the Very Beauty whereof now | F |
| Thou worshippest the shadow upon earth | E |
Joachim Du Bellay
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