Sonnet Xx: An Evil Spirit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCBEFEFGG| An evil spirit your beauty haunts me still | A |
| Wherewith alas I have been long possest | B |
| Which ceaseth not to tempt me to each ill | A |
| Nor gives me once but one poor minute's rest | B |
| In me it speaks whether I sleep or wake | C |
| And when by means to drive it out I try | D |
| With greater torments then it me doth take | C |
| And tortures me in most extremity | B |
| Before my face it lays down my despairs | E |
| And hastes me on unto a sudden death | F |
| Now tempting me to drown myself in tears | E |
| And then in sighing to give up my breath | F |
| Thus am I still provok'd to every evil | G |
| By this good wicked spirit sweet angel devil | G |
Michael Drayton
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