Sonnet Xvi: In Nature Apt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CCC CDD| In nature apt to like when I did see | A |
| Beauties which were of many carats fine | B |
| My boiling sprites did thither soon incline | B |
| And Love I thought that I was full of thee | A |
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| But finding not those restless flames in me | A |
| Which others said did make their souls to pine | B |
| I thought those babes of some pin's hurt did whine | B |
| By my love judging what love's pain might be | A |
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| But while I thus with this young lion played | C |
| Mine eyes shall I say curst or blest beheld | C |
| Stella now she is nam'd need more be said | C |
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| In her sight I a lesson new have spell'd | C |
| I now hav learn'd Love right and learn'd even so | D |
| As who by being poisoned doth poison know | D |
Sir Philip Sidney
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