Sonnet 096: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFBB| Some say thy fault is youth some wantonness | A |
| Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport | B |
| Both grace and faults are loved of more and less | A |
| Thou mak'st faults graces that to thee resort | B |
| As on the finger of a thron egrave d queen | C |
| The basest jewel will be well esteemed | D |
| So are those errors that in thee are seen | C |
| To truths translated and for true things deemed | D |
| How many lambs might the stern wolf betray | E |
| If like a lamb he could his looks translate | F |
| How many gazers mightst thou lead away | E |
| if thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state | F |
| But do not so I love thee in such sort | B |
| As thou being mine mine is thy good report | B |
William Shakespeare
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