Sweetheart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Sweetheart that thou art fair I know | A |
| More fair to me | B |
| Than flowers that make the loveliest show | A |
| To tempt the bee | B |
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| When other girls whose faces are | C |
| Beside thy face | D |
| As rushlights to the evening star | C |
| Deny thy grace | D |
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| I silent sit and let them speak | E |
| As men of strength | F |
| Allow the impotent and weak | E |
| To rail at length | F |
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| If they should tell me Love is blind | G |
| And so doth miss | H |
| The faults which they are quick to find | G |
| I'd answer this | H |
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| Envy is blind not Love whose eyes | I |
| Are purged and clear | J |
| Through gazing on the perfect skies | I |
| Of thine my dear | J |
Robert Fuller Murray
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