Sonnet Iii: Taking My Pen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFGG| Taking my pen with words to cast my woe | A |
| Duly to count the sum of all my cares | B |
| I find my griefs innumerable grow | A |
| The reckonings rise to millions of despairs | B |
| And thus dividing of my fatal hours | C |
| The payments of my love I read and cross | D |
| Subtracting set my sweets unto my sours | C |
| My joy's arrearage leads me to my loss | D |
| And thus mine eye's a debtor to thine eye | E |
| Which by extortion gaineth all their looks | F |
| My heart hath paid such grievous usury | G |
| That all their wealth lies in thy beauty's books | F |
| And all is thine which hath been due to me | G |
| And I a bankrupt quite undone by thee | G |
Michael Drayton
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