Sonnet Xxii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCECEFG| My glass shall not persuade me I am old | A |
| So long as youth and thou are of one date | B |
| But when in thee time's furrows I behold | A |
| Then look I death my days should expiate | B |
| For all that beauty that doth cover thee | C |
| Is but the seemly raiment of my heart | D |
| Which in thy breast doth live as thine in me | C |
| How can I then be elder than thou art | D |
| O therefore love be of thyself so wary | C |
| As I not for myself but for thee will | E |
| Bearing thy heart which I will keep so chary | C |
| As tender nurse her babe from faring ill | E |
| Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain | F |
| Thou gavest me thine not to give back again | G |
William Shakespeare
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