Sonnet Xviii: With What Sharp Checks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CAC ADD| With what sharp checks I in myself am shent | A |
| When into Reason's audit I do go | B |
| And by just counts myself a bankrupt know | B |
| Of all the goods which heav'n to me hath lent | A |
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| Unable quite to pay even Nature's rent | A |
| Which unto it by birthright I do owe | B |
| And which is worse no good excuse can show | B |
| But that my wealth I have most idly spend | A |
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| My youth doth waste my knowledge brings forth toys | C |
| My wit doth strive those passions to defend | A |
| Which for reward spoil it with vain annoys | C |
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| I see my course to lose myself doth bend | A |
| I see and yet no greater sorrow take | D |
| Than that I lose no more for Stella's sake | D |
Sir Philip Sidney
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