Sonnet Xl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCDCDCEETake all my loves my love yea take them all | A |
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before | B |
No love my love that thou mayst true love call | A |
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more | B |
Then if for my love thou my love receivest | C |
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest | C |
But yet be blamed if thou thyself deceivest | C |
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest | C |
I do forgive thy robbery gentle thief | D |
Although thou steal thee all my poverty | C |
And yet love knows it is a greater grief | D |
To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury | C |
Lascivious grace in whom all ill well shows | E |
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes | E |
William Shakespeare
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