Sonnet 005: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFHII| Those hours that with gentle work did frame | A |
| The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell | B |
| Will play the tyrants to the very same | A |
| And that unfair which fairly doth excel | B |
| For never resting Time leads summer on | C |
| To hideous winter and confounds him there | D |
| Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone | E |
| Beauty o'ersnowed and bareness everywhere | D |
| Then were not summer's distillation left | F |
| A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass | G |
| Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft | F |
| Nor it nor no remembrance what it was | H |
| But flowers distilled though they with winter meet | I |
| Leese but their show their substance still lives sweet | I |
William Shakespeare
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