Interpretation of Sonnets
Full many a glorious morning I have seenFlatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all triumphant splendor on my brow; But out, alack, he was but one hour mine; The region cloud hath masked him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth: Suns of the world may stain when heaven’s sun staineth. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke? 'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds. First, sonnets 33 and 34 possess a tremendous amount of literary forms. These poems are fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme of both is abab cdcd efef gg and the rhyme is almost entirely masculine, meaning the rhyme sound is the last syllable of the line. The only place that this idea does not hold true is the last two lines of Sonnet # 33 in the words “distaineth” and “staineth”, which are feminine rhymes. The sonnets have three quatrains and a closing couplet. These particular poems lacked alliteration and assonance. There was one example of assonance in the last line of Sonnet #33 where it stated, “Suns of the world may stain when heaven’s sun staineth” and one example of alliteration in line ten of Sonnet #34 where it states, “Though thou”. Next, personification was depicted in line three of Sonnet #33 where he gives the human quality of
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