Sonnet 054: O, How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFEGHGHIIO how much more doth beauty beauteous seem | A |
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give | B |
The rose looks fair but fairer we it deem | A |
For that sweet odour which doth in it live | C |
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye | D |
As the perfum egrave d tincture of the roses | E |
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly | F |
When summer's breath their mask egrave d buds discloses | E |
But for their virtue only is their show | G |
They live unwooed and unrespected fade | H |
Die to themselves Sweet roses do not so | G |
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made | H |
And so of you beauteous and lovely youth | I |
When that shall vade by verse distills your truth | I |
William Shakespeare
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