Sonnet 6: Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFCFCGG| Then let not winter's ragged hand deface | A |
| In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled | B |
| Make sweet some vial treasure thou some place | A |
| With beauty's treasure ere it be self killed | B |
| That use is not forbidden usury | C |
| Which happies those that pay the willing loan | D |
| That's for thyself to breed another thee | C |
| Or ten times happier be it ten for one | E |
| Ten times thy self were happier than thou art | F |
| If ten of thine ten times refigured thee | C |
| Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart | F |
| Leaving thee living in posterity | C |
| Be not self willed for thou art much too fair | G |
| To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir | G |
William Shakespeare
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