The Sonnets Cliv - The Little Love-god Lying Once Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGHIJK

The little Love god lying once asleepA
Laid by his side his heart inflaming brandB
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keepA
Came tripping by but in her maiden handB
The fairest votary took up that fireC
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'dD
And so the general of hot desireC
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'dE
This brand she quenched in a cool well byF
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetualG
Growing a bath and healthful remedyH
For men diseas'd but I my mistress' thrallI
Came there for cure and this by that I proveJ
Love's fire heats water water cools not loveK

William Shakespeare



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