Sonnet Xxv: The Wisest Scholar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC CCCC DED EFG| The wisest scholar of the wight most wise | A |
| By Phoebus' doom with sugar'd sentence says | B |
| That Virtue if it once met with our eyes | A |
| Strange flames of love it in our souls would raise | C |
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| But for that man with pain his truth descries | C |
| Whiles he each thing in sense's balance weighs | C |
| And so nor will nor can behold those skies | C |
| Which inward sun to heroic mind displays | C |
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| Virtue of late with virtuous care to stir | D |
| Love of herself took Stella's shape that she | E |
| To mortal eyes might sweetly shine in her | D |
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| It is most true for since I her did see | E |
| Virtue's great beauty in that face I prove | F |
| And find th'effect for I do burn in love | G |
Sir Philip Sidney
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