Sonnet Xxxv: And Yet I Cannot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCCDCDEE| And yet I cannot reprehend the flight | A |
| Or blame th'attempt presuming so to soar | B |
| The mounting venture for a high delight | A |
| Did make the honor of the fall the more | B |
| For who gets wealth that puts not from the shore | B |
| Danger hath honor great designs their fame | C |
| Glory doth follow courage goes before | B |
| And though th'event oft answers not the same | C |
| Suffice that high attempts have never shame | C |
| The mean observer whom base Safety keeps | D |
| Lives without honor dies without a name | C |
| And in eternal darkness ever sleeps | D |
| And therefore Delia 'tis to me no blot | E |
| To have attempted though attain'd thee not | E |
Samuel Daniel
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