Sonnet Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye | A |
| That thou consumest thyself in single life | B |
| Ah if thou issueless shalt hap to die | A |
| The world will wail thee like a makeless wife | B |
| The world will be thy widow and still weep | C |
| That thou no form of thee hast left behind | D |
| When every private widow well may keep | C |
| By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind | D |
| Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend | E |
| Shifts but his place for still the world enjoys it | F |
| But beauty's waste hath in the world an end | E |
| And kept unused the user so destroys it | F |
| No love toward others in that bosom sits | G |
| That on himself such murderous shame commits | G |
William Shakespeare
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