Sonnet 004: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGHGBB| Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend | A |
| Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy | B |
| Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend | A |
| And being frank she lends to those are free | B |
| Then beauteous niggard why dost thou abuse | C |
| The bounteous largess given thee to give | D |
| Profitless usurer why dost thou use | C |
| So great a sum of sums yet canst not live | E |
| For having traffic with thyself alone | F |
| Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive | G |
| Then how when nature calls thee to be gone | H |
| What acceptable audit canst thou leave | G |
| Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee | B |
| Which us egrave d lives th' executor to be | B |
William Shakespeare
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