Sonnet 101: Stella Is Sick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAB CDC DEE| Stella is sick and in that sickbed lies | A |
| Sweetness which breathes and pants as oft as she | B |
| And Grace sick too such fine conclusions tries | A |
| That Sickness brags itself best grac'd to be | B |
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| Beauty is sick but sick in so fair guise | A |
| That is that paleness Beauty's white we see | B |
| And Joy which is inseparate from those eyes | A |
| Stella now learns strange case to weep in thee | B |
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| Love moves thy pain and like a faithful page | C |
| As thy looks stir runs up and down to make | D |
| All folks press'd at thy will thy pain t'assuage | C |
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| Nature with care sweats for her darling's sake | D |
| Knowing worlds pass ere she enough can find | E |
| Of such heav'n stuff to clothe so heav'nly mind | E |
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