Sonnet 99: When Far-spent Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC ABBC DEF EGGWhen far spent night persuades each mortal eye | A |
To whom nor art nor nature granted light | B |
To lay his then mark wanting shafts of sight | B |
Clos'd with their quivers in sleep's armory | C |
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With windows ope then most my mind doth lie | A |
Viewing the shape of darkness and delight | B |
Takes in that sad hue which the inward night | B |
Of his maz'd powers keeps perfect harmony | C |
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But when birds charm and that sweet air which is | D |
Morn's messenger with rose enamel'd skies | E |
Calls each wight to salute the flower of bliss | F |
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In tomb of lids then buried are mine eyes | E |
Forc'd by their lord who is asham'd to find | G |
Such light in sense with such a darken'd mind | G |
Sir Philip Sidney
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