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