Sonnet 102: Wher Be Those Roses Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CCD EEDWhere be those roses gone which sweeten'd so our eyes | A |
Where those red cheeks which oft with fair increase did frame | B |
The height of honor in the kindly badge of shame | B |
Who hath the crimson weeds stol'n from my morning skies | A |
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How did the color fade of those vermilion dyes | A |
Which Nature self did make and self engrain'd the same | B |
I would know by what right this paleness overcame | B |
That hue whose force my heart still unto thraldom ties | A |
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Galen's adoptive sons who by a beaten way | C |
Their judgments hackney on the fault of sickness lay | C |
But feeling proof makes me say they mistake it furre | D |
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It is but Love which makes his paper perfect white | E |
To write therein more fresh the story of delight | E |
While Beauty's reddest ink Venus for him doth stir | D |
Sir Philip Sidney
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