Sonnet Xxiv: Rich Fools There Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAB CDC DEE| Rich fools there be whose base and filthy heart | A |
| Lies hatching still the goods wherein they flow | B |
| And damning their own selves to Tantal's smart | A |
| Wealth breeding want more blist more wretched grow | B |
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| Yet to those fools heav'n such wit doth impart | A |
| As what their hands do hold their heads do know | B |
| And knowing love and loving lay apart | A |
| As sacred things far from all danger's show | B |
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| But that rich fool who by blind Fortune's lot | C |
| The richest gem of love and life enjoys | D |
| And can with foul abuse such beauties blot | C |
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| Let him depriv'd of sweet but unfelt joys | D |
| Exil'd for aye from those high treasures which | E |
| He knows not grow in only folly rich | E |
Sir Philip Sidney
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