Sonnet Xl: My Heart The Anvil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDCDCEF| My heart the anvil where my thoughts do beat | A |
| My words the hammers fashioning my desire | B |
| My breast the forge including all the heat | A |
| Love is the fuel which maintains the fire | B |
| My sighs the bellows which the flame increaseth | C |
| Filling mine ears with noise and nightly groaning | D |
| Toiling with pain my labor never ceaseth | C |
| In grievous passions my woes still bemoaning | D |
| My eyes with tears against the fire striving | D |
| Whose scorching gleed my heart to cinders turneth | C |
| But with these drops the flame again reviving | D |
| Still more and more it to my torment turneth | C |
| With Sisyphus thus do I roll the stone | E |
| And turn the wheel with damned Ixion | F |
Michael Drayton
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