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