Sonnet Xvi: Mongst All The Creatures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDEEDFGGFHH| An Allusion to the Phoenix | A |
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| 'Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round | B |
| Of the birds' kind the Phoenix is alone | C |
| Which best by you of living things is known | C |
| None like to that none like to you is found | B |
| Your beauty is the hot and splend'rous sun | D |
| The precious spices be your chaste desire | E |
| Which being kindled by that heav'nly fire | E |
| Your life so like the Phoenix's begun | D |
| Yourself thus burned in that sacred flame | F |
| With so rare sweetness all the heav'ns perfuming | G |
| Again increasing as you are consuming | G |
| Only by dying born the very same | F |
| And wing'd by fame you to the stars ascend | H |
| So you of time shall live beyond the end | H |
Michael Drayton
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