Sonnet 70: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHH| That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect | A |
| For slander's mark was ever yet the fair | B |
| The ornament of beauty is suspect | A |
| A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air | B |
| So thou be good slander doth but approve | C |
| Thy worth the greater being wooed of time | D |
| For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love | E |
| And thou present'st a pure unstain egrave d prime | D |
| Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days | F |
| Either not assailed or victor being charged | G |
| Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise | F |
| To tie up envy evermore enlarged | G |
| If some suspect of ill masked not thy show | H |
| Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe | H |
William Shakespeare
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