Sonnet X: Daughter To That Good Earl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDCCDEFGEFH| To the Lady Margaret Ley | A |
| - | |
| Daughter to that good Earl once President | B |
| Of England's Council and her Treasury | C |
| Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee | C |
| And left them both more in himself content | B |
| Till sad the breaking of that Parliament | D |
| Broke him as that dishonest victory | C |
| At Chaeronea fatal to liberty | C |
| Killed with report that old man eloquent | D |
| Though later born than to have known the days | E |
| Wherein your father flourished yet by you | F |
| Madam methinks I see him living yet | G |
| So well your words his noble virtues praise | E |
| That all both judge you to relate them true | F |
| And to possess them honoured Margaret | H |
John Milton
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