Sonnet 79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGHIJJWhilst I alone did call upon thy aid | A |
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace | B |
But now my gracious numbers are decayed | A |
And my sick Muse doth give an other place | B |
I grant sweet love thy lovely argument | C |
Deserves the travail of a worthier pen | D |
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent | E |
He robs thee of and pays it thee again | D |
He lends thee virtue and he stole that word | F |
From thy behaviour beauty doth he give | G |
And found it in thy cheek he can afford | H |
No praise to thee but what in thee doth live | I |
Then thank him not for that which he doth say | J |
Since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay | J |
William Shakespeare
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