Sonnet 040: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCDCDCEE| Take all my loves my love yea take them all | A |
| What hast thou then more than thou hadst before | B |
| No love my love that thou mayst true love call | A |
| All mine was thine before thou hadst this more | B |
| Then if for my love thou my love receivest | C |
| I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest | C |
| But yet be blamed if thou thy self deceivest | C |
| By wilful taste of what thy self refusest | C |
| I do forgive thy robbery gentle thief | D |
| Although thou steal thee all my poverty | C |
| And yet love knows it is a greater grief | D |
| To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury | C |
| Lascivious grace in whom all ill well shows | E |
| Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes | E |
William Shakespeare
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