Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHI| Or I shall live your epitaph to make | A |
| Or you survive when I in earth am rotten | B |
| From hence your memory death cannot take | A |
| Although in me each part will be forgotten | B |
| Your name from hence immortal life shall have | C |
| Though I once gone to all the world must die | D |
| The earth can yield me but a common grave | E |
| When you entomb egrave d in men's eyes shall lie | D |
| Your monument shall be my gentle verse | F |
| Which eyes not yet created shall o'er read | G |
| And tongues to be your being shall rehearse | F |
| When all the breathers of this world are dead | G |
| You still shall live mdash such virtue hath my pen mdash | H |
| Where breath most breathes even in the mouths of men | I |
William Shakespeare
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