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Why? Cupid himself is the speaker’s rival (cf. ” I’ll just cut to the chase and say the best way to understand the first two lines is: Given your eyes, lips, and heart, how foolish I am to hope I could have Cupid’s help to prey on you. The word “that” that follows is obscure as a relative pronoun, technically explained with some arcane Latin-grammar structure, “with blank and blank and blank omitted but understood. The poem is a sort of mini-blazon, on just three of Stella’s physical features, listed in its first three feet.
#Sonnet 11 full#
The full rhyme scheme of this sonnet is shared with only two others (5 and 10) in the sequence, and the palindromic ABABBABA octave appears in only five others. I suggest you click here to open the sonnet in a separate window, so that you can refer directly to it as you read on through the analysis.Įditing note: Duncan-Jones (without explanation) ends the third line with a period, beginning the fourth, now a fragment, with the word “And” instead of “As.” This is surely an error, which I have not seen elsewhere. Where well he knows, no man to him can come. Where, blushing red, that Love’s self doth them love,įrom all the world, her heart is then his room, When he will play, then in her lips he is, Glad if for her he give them leave to die.
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Then with those eyes he looks lo, by and byĮach soul doth at Love’s feet his weapons lay, Since to himself he doth your gifts apply,Īs his main force, choice sport, and easeful stay.įor when he will see who dare him gainsay, Fair eyes, sweet lips, dear heart, that foolish IĬould hope by Cupid’s help on you to prey