Sonnet 94: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHIHJKKThey that have power to hurt and will do none | A |
That do not do the thing they most do show | B |
Who moving others are themselves as stone | C |
Unmov egrave d cold and to temptation slow | B |
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces | D |
And husband nature's riches from expense | E |
They are the lords and owners of their faces | F |
Others but stewards of their excellence | G |
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet | H |
Though to itself it only live and die | I |
But if that flower with base infection meet | H |
The basest weed outbraves his dignity | J |
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds | K |
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds | K |
William Shakespeare
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