Analysis of Sonnet 130

This sonnet compares the speaker's beloved to a number of other beauties, and never in the lover's favor. Her eyes are "nothing like the sun," her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored, and her hairs are like black wires on her head. In the second quatrain, the speaker says he has seen roses separated by color, da

The structure of the sonnet is in the form of fourteen lines. There are two kinds of sonnets, English and Italian. Shakespeare¡¦s sonnet represents the English sonnet. It has three stanzas, four lines each, and one couplet at the end of sonnet contains the theme of the sonnet. Rhyme and rhythm is important to any piece of sonnet poetry. The basic rhyming scheme of ¡¥My mistress¡¦ eyes are nothing like the sun¡¦ is a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g. The fact that the couplet has a different rhyme scheme -g-g, creates the distinction that it is different from the rest of the poem. It is important that the reader knows that the last two lines are unique because they finalize the entire poem¡¦s argument.

masked, into red and white, but he sees no such roses in his mistress's cheeks; and he says the breath that "reeks" from his mistress is less delightful than perfume. In the third quatrain, he admits that, though he loves her voice, music "hath a far more pleasing sound," and that though he has never seen a goddess, his mistress, unlike goddesses, walks heavily on the ground. In the couplet, however, the speaker declares that, "by heaven," he thinks his love as rare and valuable. "As any she belied with false comp

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