Sonnet 80: Sweet Swelling Lip Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ACCA DDE FFG| Sweet swelling lip well may'st thou swell in pride | A |
| Since best wits think it wit thee to admire | B |
| Nature's praise Virtue's stall Cupid's cold fire | C |
| Whence words not words but heav'nly graces slide | A |
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| The new Parnassus where the Muses bide | A |
| Sweet'ner of music wisdom's baeautifier | C |
| Breather of life and fast'ner of desire | C |
| Where Beauty's blush in Honor's grain is dyed | A |
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| Thus much my heart compell'd my mouth to say | D |
| But now spite of my heart my mouth will stay | D |
| Loathing all lies doubting this flattery is | E |
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| And no spur can his resty race renew | F |
| Without how far this praise is short of you | F |
| Sweet lip you teach my mouth with one sweet kiss | G |
Sir Philip Sidney
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