Sonnet 088: When Thou Shalt Be Disposed To Set Me Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCDCDEE| When thou shalt be disposed to set me light | A |
| And place my merit in the eye of scorn | B |
| Upon thy side against myself I'll fight | A |
| And prove thee virtuous though thou art forsworn | B |
| With mine own weakness being best acquainted | C |
| Upon thy part I can set down a story | D |
| Of faults concealed wherein I am attainted | C |
| That thou in losing me shalt win much glory | D |
| And I by this will be a gainer too | C |
| For bending all my loving thoughts on thee | D |
| The injuries that to myself I do | C |
| Doing thee vantage double vantage me | D |
| Such is my love to thee I so belong | E |
| That for thy right myself will bear all wrong | E |
William Shakespeare
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