Sonnet Xlviii: My Cynthia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGHGBB| My Cynthia hath the waters of mine eyes | A |
| The ready handmaids on her grace attending | B |
| That never fall to ebb nor ever dries | A |
| For to their flow she never grants an ending | B |
| Th'Ocean never did attend more duly | C |
| Upon his Sovereign's course the night's pale Queen | D |
| Nor paid the impost of his waves more truly | C |
| Than mine to her in truth have ever been | E |
| Yet nought the rock of that hard heart can move | F |
| Where beat these tears with zeal and fury driveth | G |
| And yet I rather languish in her love | H |
| Than I would joy the fairest she that liveth | G |
| I doubt to find such pleasure in my gaining | B |
| As now I taste in compass of complaining | B |
Samuel Daniel
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