Sonnet 097: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEFGHGHBB| How like a winter hath my absence been | A |
| From thee the pleasure of the fleeting year | B |
| What freezings have I felt what dark days seen | C |
| What old December's bareness everywhere | D |
| And yet this time removed was summer's time | E |
| The teeming autumn big with rich increase | F |
| Bearing the wanton burden of the prime | E |
| Like widowed wombs after their lords' decease | F |
| Yet this abundant issue seemed to me | G |
| But hope of orphans and unfathered fruit | H |
| For summer and his pleasures wait on thee | G |
| And thou away the very birds are mute | H |
| Or if they sing 'tis with so dull a cheer | B |
| That leaves look pale dreading the winter's near | B |
William Shakespeare
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