Sonnets: Idea Xii To The Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFGECC| That learned Father which so firmly proves | A |
| The soul of man immortal and divine | B |
| And doth the several offices define | B |
| Anima Gives her that name as she the body moves | A |
| Amor Then is she love embracing charity | C |
| Animus Moving a will in us it is the mind | D |
| Mens Retaining knowledge still the same in kind | D |
| Memoria As intellectual it is memory | C |
| Ratio In judging reason only is her name | E |
| Sensus In speedy apprehension it is sense | F |
| Conscientia In right and wrong they call her conscience | G |
| Spiritus The spirit when it to God ward doth inflame | E |
| These of the soul the several functions be | C |
| Which my heart lightened by thy love doth see | C |
Michael Drayton
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