Sonnet Xv: If That A Loyal Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDEDEFF| If that a loyal heart and faith unfeign'd | A |
| If a sweet languish with a chaste desire | B |
| If hunger starven thought so long retain'd | A |
| Fed but with smoke and cherished but with fire | B |
| And if a brow with care's characters painted | A |
| Bewrays my love with broken words half spoken | C |
| To her that sits in my thought's temple sainted | A |
| And lays to view my vulture gnawn heart open | C |
| If I have done due homage to her eyes | D |
| And had my sighs still tending on her name | E |
| If on her love my life and honor lies | D |
| And she th'unkindest maid still scorns the same | E |
| Let this suffice the world yet may see | F |
| The fault is hers though mine the hurt must be | F |
Samuel Daniel
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