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Sonnet 73Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.(He who makes a start has half the work done.) Horace The best way to start a letter is to show the date and then...
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Sonnet 73This is perhaps Shakespeare's best sonnet, technically speaking. What makes it unique is the display of metaphors. Each of the three stanzas contains two metaphors. The first in each case is a...
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Sonnet 73Throughout Sonnet 73 the speaker, presumably Shakespeare himself, is describing himself, his age and appearance, in terms of metaphors. In lines 1-4 he compares himself to the time of year when the...
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Sonnet 73The two forms of a two-beat foot in scansion are Iamb and Trochee. The iamb is the most common (with the emphasis or stress on the second syllable), the foot of the iambic pentameter line that...
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Sonnet 73Like many of his other sonnets, Sonnet 73 focuses on Shakespeare's anxieties concerning old age. In the poem, the speaker evokes seasonal imagery to reflect the passage of time by using several...
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Sonnet 73William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 is a poem about love, like many of the sonnets. In this sonnet, Shakespeare is discussing the season, autumn, and how he has grown old. In order to interpret the...
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Sonnet 73The theme of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 is the importance of the friend of the poet's loving him more strongly because of the temporal state of life. Calling attention to his aging in order...
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Sonnet 73[eNotes editors are only permitted to answer one question at a time. If you have additional questions, please list them separately.] In terms of imagery in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, there are...
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Sonnet 73When a reader analyzes diction in a poem they are paying special attention to the word choices made by the poet. The reader should give thoughtful consideration to the denotation (dictionary...
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Sonnet 73Sonnet 73 is a typical Shakespearean sonnet. Therefore, it is written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. There are three quatrains that develop the theme, or action,...
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Sonnet 73Most likely, he is talking about romantic love but it could also be addressed to a beloved friend. The speaker tells his beloved to envision him as autumn, then twilight and sunset. Since it is...
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Sonnet 73Scan the lines provided from Sonnet 73. Mark the syllables, separate the feet with short vertical...It's confusing, yes, to mark up a passage of verse with all the signs and symbols. I will scan the first few lines for you and give the rhyme scheme of these line, and then you can finish it!...
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Sonnet 29What similarities in structure, style and themes are there between Shakespeare's sonnets 29 (When...In terms of structure and style, both Shakespearean (English) sonnets are arranged thusly: four divisions: three quatrains (each with a rhyme-scheme of its own) and a rhymed couplet at the end that...
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Sonnet 73I love scanning poems. Once you get the system down, it's not hard to do, and sometimes the scanning will show you something that you might otherwise overlook (such as how stresses can bump up...
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Sonnet 73"Death's second self" refers to night, and is just a continuation of the idea began in that quatrain at line 5:"In me thou see'st the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in...
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Sonnet 73The theme of Sonnet 73 is mortality leading to death; there even seems to be a bit of sadness as the speaker is moving closer to death and warns the listener that he/she will perhaps love/miss them...
