Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHH| Music to hear why hear'st thou music sadly | A |
| Sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy | B |
| Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly | A |
| Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy | B |
| If the true concord of well tun egrave d sounds | C |
| By unions married do offend thine ear | D |
| They do but sweetly chide thee who confounds | C |
| In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear | E |
| Mark how one string sweet husband to another | F |
| Strikes each in each by mutual ordering | G |
| Resembling sire and child and happy mother | F |
| Who all in one one pleasing note do sing | G |
| Whose speechless song being many seeming one | H |
| Sings this to thee Thou single wilt prove none | H |
William Shakespeare
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