Sonnet 78: Oh How The Pleasant Airs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CCD EED| Oh how the pleasnat airs of true love be | A |
| Infect'd by those vapors which arise | B |
| From out that noisome gulf which gaping lies | B |
| Between the jaws of hellish Jealousy | A |
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| A monster others' harm self misery | A |
| Beauty's plague Virtue's scourge succour of lies | B |
| Who his own joy to his own hurt applies | B |
| And only cherish doth with injury | A |
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| Who since he hath by Nature's special grace | C |
| So piercing paws as spoil when they embrace | C |
| So nimble feet as stir still though on thorns | D |
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| So many eyes ay seeking their own woe | E |
| So ample ears as never good news know | E |
| Is it not evil that such a Devil want horns | D |
Sir Philip Sidney
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