The Sonnets Cxxiv - If My Dear Love Were But The Child Of State Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAABABCDCDEE| If my dear love were but the child of state | A |
| It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd | A |
| As subject to Time's love or to Time's hate | A |
| Weeds among weeds or flowers with flowers gather'd | A |
| No it was builded far from accident | A |
| It suffers not in smiling pomp nor falls | B |
| Under the blow of thralled discontent | A |
| Whereto th' inviting time our fashion calls | B |
| It fears not policy that heretic | C |
| Which works on leases of short number'd hours | D |
| But all alone stands hugely politic | C |
| That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers | D |
| To this I witness call the fools of time | E |
| Which die for goodness who have lived for crime | E |
William Shakespeare
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