Sonnet Vi: Fair Is My Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| Fair is my love and cruel as she's fair | A |
| Her brow shades frowns although her eyes are sunny | B |
| Her smiles are lightning though her pride despair | A |
| And her disdains are gall her favors honey | B |
| A modest maid deck'd with a blush of honor | C |
| Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love | D |
| The wonder of all eyes that look upon her | C |
| Sacred on earth design'd a saint above | D |
| Chastity and Beauty which are deadly foes | E |
| Live reconciled friends within her brow | F |
| And had she pity to conjoin with those | E |
| Then who had heard the plaints I utter now | F |
| O had she not been fair and thus unkind | G |
| My Muse had slept and none had known my mind | G |
Samuel Daniel
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Sonnet Vi: Fair Is My Love is a poem by Samuel Daniel. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.