Sonnet 147 written by Shakespeare is written to explain how profoundly in love he is with this contraversial black lady. It is composed of fourteen lines, three quatrains and a single couplet. Throughout the poem Shakespeare seems to be very upset that he is in love despite having every reason not to be, he explains in the second quatrain. With all this emotion, he admits that he is insane in the final quatrain, acting like a madman. The final couplet says that the he believes she is beautiful and perfect but in all actuality is dark and evil.
The first quatrain talks about his disease called love. Shakespeare called his love a fever, longing still. His love is a fever, a sickness that symptoms is high temperature. The love keeps him sick but yet makes him hot with emotion. The
The couplet closes the sonnet by tying in the three quatrains. With the word of fair, when a person has fair skinned, it is considered healthy. The physician is “thought thee bright,” as quoted from the first line of the couplet. Physicians are thought to be bright and that Shakespeare’s love should have been returned. This line is disproven by the final line in the poem, which the poem’s main point is focused around. Shakespeare used the 1st line to say this is how love should work he then uses the final line to say that this is what his love is like.
The final quatrain discusses that it has turned him into a mad man. The first line Shakespeare has no hope of recovering and its reason for such a strong desire has no significance. The second line in the use of the wo
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