Sonnet 121: Tis Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHH| 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed | A |
| When not to be receives reproach of being | B |
| And the just pleasure lost which is so deemed | A |
| Not by our feeling but by others' seeing | B |
| For why should others' false adulterate eyes | C |
| Give salutation to my sportive blood | D |
| Or on my frailties why are frailer spies | C |
| Which in their wills count bad what I think good | E |
| No I am that I am and they that level | F |
| At my abuses reckon up their own | G |
| I may be straight though they themselves be bevel | F |
| By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown | G |
| Unless this general evil they maintain | H |
| All men are bad and in their badness reign | H |
William Shakespeare
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