Sonnet Xix: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFGHI| Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws | A |
| And make the earth devour her own sweet brood | B |
| Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws | A |
| And burn the long liv'd Phoenix in her blood | C |
| Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets | D |
| And do whate'er thou wilt swift footed Time | E |
| To the wide world and all her fading sweets | D |
| But I forbid thee one more heinous crime | E |
| O carve not with the hours my love's fair brow | F |
| Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen | G |
| Him in thy course untainted do allow | F |
| For beauty's pattern to succeeding men | G |
| Yet do thy worst old Time Despite thy wrong | H |
| My love shall in my verse ever live young | I |
William Shakespeare
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