The Sonnets Cliv - The Little Love-god Lying Once Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGHIJKThe little Love god lying once asleep | A |
Laid by his side his heart inflaming brand | B |
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep | A |
Came tripping by but in her maiden hand | B |
The fairest votary took up that fire | C |
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd | D |
And so the general of hot desire | C |
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd | E |
This brand she quenched in a cool well by | F |
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual | G |
Growing a bath and healthful remedy | H |
For men diseas'd but I my mistress' thrall | I |
Came there for cure and this by that I prove | J |
Love's fire heats water water cools not love | K |
William Shakespeare
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