Sonnet 019: Devouring Time Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFEGHGHIJ| Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws | A |
| And make the earth devour her own sweet brood | B |
| Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws | A |
| And burn the long lived phoenix in her blood | C |
| Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st | D |
| And do whate'er thou wilt swift footed Time | E |
| To the wide world and all her fading sweets | F |
| But I forbid thee one most heinous crime | E |
| O carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow | G |
| Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen | H |
| Him in thy course untainted do allow | G |
| For beauty's pattern to succeeding men | H |
| Yet do thy worst old Time despite thy wrong | I |
| My love shall in my verse ever live young | J |
William Shakespeare
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