Sonnet Xxviii: You That With Allegory's Curious Frame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDC DEE| You that with allegory's curious frame | A |
| Of others' children changelings use to make | B |
| With me those pains for God's sake do not take | B |
| I list not dig so deep for brazen fame | A |
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| When I say Stella I do mean the same | A |
| Princess of Beauty for whose only sake | B |
| The reins of Love I love though never slake | B |
| And joy therein though nations count it shame | A |
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| I beg no subject to use eloquence | C |
| Nor in hid ways do guide Philosophy | D |
| Look at my hands for no such quintessence | C |
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| But know that I in pure simplicity | D |
| Breathe out the flames which burn within my heart | E |
| Love only reading unto me this art | E |
Sir Philip Sidney
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