Sonnet 59: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHH| If there be nothing new but that which is | A |
| Hath been before how are our brains beguiled | B |
| Which labouring for invention bear amis | C |
| The second burthen of a former child | B |
| O that record could with a backward look | D |
| Even of five hundred courses of the sun | E |
| Show me your image in some antique book | D |
| Since mind at first in character was done | E |
| That I might see what the old world could say | F |
| To this compos egrave d wonder of your frame | G |
| Whether we are mended or whe'er better they | F |
| Or whether revolution be the same | G |
| O sure I am the wits of former days | H |
| To subjects worse have given admiring praise | H |
William Shakespeare
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