Sonnets: Idea Xvii To Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBCDEFDBBStay 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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