Sonnet Xvii: Stay, Speedy Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCDEFGECC| To Time | A |
| - | |
| Stay speedy Time behold before thou pass | B |
| From age to age what thou hast sought to see | C |
| One in whom all the excellencies be | C |
| In whom Heav'n looks itself as in a glass | B |
| Time look thyself in this tralucent glass | B |
| And thy youth past in this pure mirror see | C |
| As the world's beauty in his infancy | C |
| What is was then and thou before it was | D |
| Pass on and to posterity tell this | E |
| Yet see thou tell but truly what hath been | F |
| Say to our nephews that thou once hast seen | G |
| In perfect human shape all heav'nly bliss | E |
| And bid them mourn nay more despair with thee | C |
| That she is gone her like again to see | C |
Michael Drayton
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