Sonnet 52: A Strife Is Grown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DBCD EFE FGG| A strife is grown between Virtue and Love | A |
| While each pretends that Stella must be his | B |
| Her eyes her lips her all saith Love do this | C |
| Since they do wear his badge most firmly prove | D |
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| But Virtue thus that title doth disprove | D |
| That Stella oh dear name that Stella is | B |
| That virtuous soul sure heir of heav'nly bliss | C |
| Not this fair outside which our hearts doth move | D |
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| And therefore though her beauty and her grace | E |
| Be Love's indeed in Stella's self he may | F |
| By no pretense claim any manner place | E |
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| Well Love since this demur our suit will stay | F |
| Let Virtue have that Stella's self yet thus | G |
| That Virtue but that body grant to us | G |
Sir Philip Sidney
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