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U I / UI / U I/ U I / U
Called to that audit by advis'd respects;
Trochaic
Pentameter
Consonance:
Emphasizing
the war with
time, and also
how foreignfeeling the
aging process
is.
Time (cont.):
Time is used as
an allusion;
referencing
Chronos, the
god of time,
and how he is
controlling the
poets aging.
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye, Metaphor (1) d
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Couplet
Personification
A lamentation of love to be
lost.
First person point of view is significant to
this sonnet considering that the poet is
battling himself, his own losses and his
own life.
Anticipating the
future, and how
he will age.
(1) Metaphor,
someone else is
barely
acknowledging
him with a
glance of their
brilliant eye.
Development
Time: Repetition,
emphasizing how
it will change his
appearance as the
years age him.
Quatrain (1)
U / I U / I U /I U / I U
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Against that time, if ever that time come,
Quatrain (2)
Rhyme Scheme
Quatron (3)
Iambic
Pentameter
Shakespeare Sonnet 49
(2) This
metaphor
highlights what
the poet thinks
about himself
and what he
really deserves
from life.