Sonnets: Idea Xxiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFBGBHH| Love banished heaven in earth was held in scorn | A |
| Wand'ring abroad in need and beggary | B |
| And wanting friends though of a goddess born | A |
| Yet craved the alms of such as pass d by | C |
| I like a man devout and charitable | D |
| Cloth d the naked lodged this wandering guest | E |
| With sighs and tears still furnishing his table | D |
| With what might make the miserable blest | E |
| But this ungrateful for my good desert | F |
| Enticed my thoughts against me to conspire | B |
| Who gave consent to steal away my heart | G |
| And set my breast his lodging on a fire | B |
| Well well my friends when beggars grow thus bold | H |
| No marvel then though charity grow cold | H |
Michael Drayton
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