Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHH| O truant Muse what shall be thy amends | A |
| For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed | B |
| Both truth and beauty on my love depends | A |
| So dost thou too and therein dignified | B |
| Make answer Muse Wilt thou not haply say | C |
| Truth needs no colour with his colour fixed | D |
| Beauty no pencil beauty's truth to lay | C |
| But best is best if never intermixed | D |
| Because he needs no praise wilt thou be dumb | E |
| Excuse not silence so for't lies in thee | F |
| To make him much outlive a gilded tomb | G |
| And to be praised of ages yet to be | F |
| Then do thy office Muse I teach thee how | H |
| To make him seem long hence as he shows now | H |
William Shakespeare
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