Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHH| When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced | A |
| The rich proud cost of outworn buried age | B |
| When sometime lofty towers I see down razed | C |
| And brass eternal slave to mortal rage | B |
| When I have seen the hungry ocean gain | D |
| Advantage on the kingdom of the shore | E |
| And the firm soil win of the watery main | D |
| Increasing store with loss and loss with store | E |
| When I have seen such interchange of state | F |
| Or state it self confounded to decay | G |
| Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate | F |
| That Time will come and take my love away | G |
| This thought is as a death which cannot choose | H |
| But weep to have that which it fears to lose | H |
William Shakespeare
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