Sonnet Xx: What It Is To Breathe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCCDCDEE| What it is to breathe and live without life | A |
| How to be pale with anguish red with fear | B |
| T'have peace abroad and nought within but strife | A |
| Wish to be present and yet shun t'appear | B |
| How to be bold far off and bashful near | B |
| How to think much and have no words to speak | C |
| To crave redress yet hold affliction dear | B |
| To have affection strong a body weak | C |
| Never to find and evermore to seek | C |
| And seek that which I dare not hope to find | D |
| T'affect this life and yet this life disleek | C |
| Grateful t'another to myself unkind | D |
| This cruel knowledge of these contraries | E |
| Delia my heart hath learn'd out of those eyes | E |
Samuel Daniel
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