Sonnet 73: Love Still A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CBCB DDE FFG| Love still a boy and oft a wanton is | A |
| School'd only by his mother's tender eye | B |
| What wonder then if he his lesson miss | C |
| When for so soft a rod dear play he try | B |
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| And yet my Star because a sugar'd kiss | C |
| In sport I suck'd while she asleep did lie | B |
| Doth low'r nay chide nay threat for only this | C |
| Sweet it was saucy Love not humble I | B |
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| But no 'scuse serves she makes her wrath appear | D |
| In Beauty's throne see now who dares come near | D |
| Those scarlet judges threat'ning bloody pain | E |
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| Oh heav'nly fool thy most kiss worthy face | F |
| Anger invests with such a lovely grace | F |
| That Anger's self I needs must kiss again | G |
Sir Philip Sidney
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