Sonnet 38: This Night While Sleep Begins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABCA DEF EGH| This night while sleep begins with heavy wings | A |
| To hatch mine eyes and that unbitted thought | B |
| Doth fall to stray and my chief powers are brought | B |
| To leave the scepter of all subject things | A |
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| The first that straight my fancy's error brings | A |
| Unto my mind is Stella's image wrought | B |
| By Love's own self but with so curious draught | C |
| That she methinks not only shines but sings | A |
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| I start look hark but what in clos'd up sense | D |
| Was held in open'd sense it flies away | E |
| Leaving me nought but wailing eloquence | F |
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| I seeing betters sights in sight's decay | E |
| Call'd it anew and wooed sleep again | G |
| But him her host that unkind guest had slain | H |
Sir Philip Sidney
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