The meaning of SONNET is a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme; also : a poem in this pattern.
Illusion. And, have I known: all thy sound And furied Confusion. Here, do I bind All hope no faith nor charity hath bound. Celerity is stopped–and rested. Still… This sonnet is part of a short sequence; click here to read it all: Permalink Etudes (with introductions)Fixed Verse For...
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Of course it is partly due to the slow process of being drawn into the sonnets, with their continuous change and varying cycles of elation and depression, that the view is gradually inculcated into one's soul that this is a history of love which anyone might have known, a mortal and imm...
You had a father: let your son say so. XIV. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck; And yet methinks I have Astronomy, But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell, ...
Key Themes:Constant love, Ideal love, Enduring love, Marriage, Fixed points and wandering. Style:Sonnet 116 is written iniambic pentameterand follows the traditionalsonnet form Sonnet 116: A Translation Marriage has no impediment. Love is not real if it alters when circumstances change or if one...
The poem also speaks to the cyclical nature of our emotions. The speaker finds herself once again in a state of emotional emptiness, despite having experienced love in the past. This suggests that our emotions are not static or fixed, but rather they ebb and flow like the tides. ...
Full many a glorious morning have I seen, Flatter 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, ...
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For no man well of such a salve can speak, That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace: Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief, Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss, Th' offender's sorrow lends but weak relief To him that bears the strong offence's cross...