Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou To Mine Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHThou blind fool Love what dost thou to mine eyes | A |
That they behold and see not what they see | B |
They know what beauty is see where it lies | A |
Yet what the best is take the worst to be | B |
If eyes corrupt by overpartial looks | C |
Be anchored in the bay where all men ride | D |
Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forg egrave d hooks | C |
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied | D |
Why should my heart think that a several plot | E |
Which my heart knows the wide world's common place | F |
Or mine eyes seeing this say this is not | E |
To put fair truth upon so foul a face | F |
In things right true my heart and eyes have erred | G |
And to this false plague are they now transferred | H |
William Shakespeare
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