Sonnet 053: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHH| What is your substance whereof are you made | A |
| That millions of strange shadows on you tend | B |
| Since everyone hath every one one shade | A |
| And you but one can every shadow lend | B |
| Describe Adonis and the counterfeit | C |
| Is poorly imitated after you | D |
| On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set | E |
| And you in Grecian tires are painted new | D |
| Speak of the spring and foison of the year | F |
| The one doth shadow of your beauty show | G |
| The other as your bounty doth appear | F |
| And you in every bless egrave d shape we know | G |
| In all external grace you have some part | H |
| But you like none none you for constant heart | H |
William Shakespeare
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