Shakespeare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ACCA DED EFF| Others abide our question Thou art free | A |
| We ask and ask thou smilest and art still | B |
| Out topping knowledge For the loftiest hill | B |
| Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty | A |
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| Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea | A |
| Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling place | C |
| Spares but the cloudy border of his base | C |
| To the foiled searching of mortality | A |
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| And thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know | D |
| Self schooled self scanned self honored self secure | E |
| Didst tread on earth unguessed at better so | D |
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| All pains the immortal spirit must endure | E |
| All weakness which impairs all griefs which bow | F |
| Find their sole speech in that victorious brow | F |
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