Sonnet Xvi: Happy In Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGGGGCC| Happy in sleep waking content to languish | A |
| Embracing clouds by night in daytime mourn | B |
| All things I loath save her and mine own anguish | A |
| Pleas'd in my hurt inured to live forlorn | B |
| Nought do I crave but love death or my Lady | C |
| Hoarse with crying mercy mercy yet my merit | D |
| So man vows and prayers e'er made I | E |
| That now at length t'yield mere pity were it | F |
| But still the Hydra of my cares renewing | G |
| Revives new sorrows of her fresh disdaining | G |
| Still must I go the summer winds pursuing | G |
| Finding no end nor period of my paining | G |
| Wail all my life my griefs do touch so nearly | C |
| And thus I live because I love her dearly | C |
Samuel Daniel
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