... a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). Dust is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship to nature and for the fact that he may soon be dead. Line 6: England gave the speaker "flowers to love" and "ways to roam." England can't actually give anything, really ( ... these two types is the rhyme scheme. The octave of a Petrarchan sonnet generally follows this form: ABBAABBA, where each letter represents one particular end rhyme for that line. In this case, line 1 (A) would rhyme with lines 4, 5, and 8, while the sestet could take several forms ...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School