Sonnet 08 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCDEEEEEEVIII | A |
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Captain or Colonel or Knight in Arms | B |
Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease | C |
If ever deed of honour did thee please | C |
Guard them and him within protect from harms | B |
He can requite thee for he knows the charms | B |
That call Fame on such gentle acts as these | C |
And he can spred thy Name o're Lands and Seas | C |
What ever clime the Suns bright circle warms | D |
Lift not thy spear against the Muses Bowre | E |
The great Emathian Conqueror bid spare | E |
The house of Pindarus when Temple and Towre | E |
Went to the ground And the repeated air | E |
Of sad Electra's Poet had the power | E |
To save th' Athenian Walls from ruine bare | E |
John Milton
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