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A Lover's Vow Explication
Or where his beams may not dissolve the ice,
In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen;
4 With proud people, in presence sad and wise,
Set me in base, or yet in high degree;
In the long night, or in the shortest day:
In clear weather, or where mists thickets be;
8 In lusty youth, or when my hairs be gray;
Set me in earth, in heaven, or yet in hell;
In hill, in dale, or in the foaming flood;
Thrall, or at large-alive whereso I dwell;
12 Sick or in heath, in ill fame or in good;
Yours will I be, and with that only thought
Comfort myself when that my hap is naught.
Although not written by Shakespeare, "A Lover's Vow" by Henry Howard is considered a Shakespearean sonnet with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG...
This section contains 639 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |