Sonnet 084: Who Is It That Says Most, Which Can Say More Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHH| Who is it that says most which can say more | A |
| Than this rich praise that you alone are you | B |
| In whose confine immur egrave d is the store | A |
| Which should example where your equal grew | B |
| Lean penury within that pen doth dwell | C |
| That to his subject lends not some small glory | D |
| But he that writes of you if he can tell | C |
| That you are you so dignifies his story | D |
| Let him but copy what in you is writ | E |
| Not making worse what nature made so clear | F |
| And such a counterpart shall fame his wit | E |
| Making his style admir egrave d everywhere | G |
| You to your beauteous blessings add a curse | H |
| Being fond on praise which makes your praises worse | H |
William Shakespeare
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