Sonnet 12 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBBEDBCDCCDC| XII On the same | A |
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| I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs | B |
| By the known rules of antient libertie | C |
| When strait a barbarous noise environs me | D |
| Of Owles and Cuckoes Asses Apes and Doggs | B |
| As when those Hinds that were transform'd to Froggs | B |
| Raild at Latona's twin born progenie | E |
| Which after held the Sun and Moon in fee | D |
| But this is got by casting Pearl to Hoggs | B |
| That bawle for freedom in their senceless mood | C |
| And still revolt when truth would set them free | D |
| Licence they mean when they cry libertie | C |
| For who loves that must first be wise and good | C |
| But from that mark how far they roave we see | D |
| For all this wast of wealth and loss of blood | C |
John Milton
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