Sonnet 12: When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHHWhen I do count the clock that tells the time | A |
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night | B |
When I behold the violet past prime | A |
And sable curls all silvered o'er with white | B |
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves | C |
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd | D |
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves | C |
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard | E |
Then of thy beauty do I question make | F |
That thou among the wastes of time must go | G |
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake | F |
And die as fast as they see others grow | G |
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence | H |
Save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence | H |
William Shakespeare
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