Sonnet 35: What May Words Say Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAB CDD CEE| What may words say or what may words not say | A |
| Where truth itself must speak like flattery | B |
| Within what bounds can one his liking stay | A |
| Where Nature doth with infinite agree | B |
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| What Nestor's counsel can my flames allay | A |
| Since Reason's self doth blow the coal in me | B |
| And ah what hope that hope should once see day | A |
| Where Cupid is sworn page to Chastity | B |
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| Honor is honor'd that thou dost possess | C |
| Him as thy slave and now long needy Fame | D |
| Doth even grom rich naming my Stella's name | D |
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| Wit learns in thee perfection to express | C |
| Not thou by praise but prasie in thee is rais'd | E |
| It is a praise to praise when thou art prais'd | E |
Sir Philip Sidney
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