Sonnets: Idea Xiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEDFGGFHH| If he from heaven that filched that living fire | A |
| Condemned by Jove to endless torment be | B |
| I greatly marvel how you still go free | B |
| That far beyond Prometheus did aspire | C |
| The fire he stole although of heavenly kind | D |
| Which from above he craftily did take | E |
| Of lifeless clods us living men to make | E |
| He did bestow in temper of the mind | D |
| But you broke into heaven's immortal store | F |
| Where virtue honour wit and beauty lay | G |
| Which taking thence you have escaped away | G |
| Yet stand as free as e'er you did before | F |
| Yet old Prometheus punished for his rape | H |
| Thus poor thieves suffer when the greater 'scape | H |
Michael Drayton
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