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