Sonet 5 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDEDEFF| My hart was slaine and none but you and I | A |
| Who should I thinke the murder should commit | B |
| Since but your selfe there was no creature by | A |
| But onely I guiltlesse of murth'ring it | B |
| It slew it selfe the verdict on the view | C |
| Doe quit the dead and me not accessarie | D |
| Well well I feare it will be prou'd by you | C |
| The euidence so great a proofe doth carry | D |
| But O see see we need enquire no further | D |
| Vpon your lips the scarlet drops are found | E |
| And in your eye the boy that did the murther | D |
| Your cheekes yet pale since first they gaue the wound | E |
| By this I see how euer things be past | F |
| Yet heauen will still haue murther out at last | F |
Michael Drayton
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