Iambic Pentameter: Ten syllables for each line into five pairs.

U / U / U / U / U / Claim Consonance: The th sound makes the reader pause. Assonance: The ee sound gives relations between emphasized words. Personification: Time is personified with its capability to be entertained. Euphony: Tempo of the sonnet becomes slow and gentle after the problem is resolved. A O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, B When thou art all the better part of me? A What can mine own praise to mine own self bring? B And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?

C Even for this let us divided live, D And our dear love lose name of single one, C That by this separation I may give D That due to thee which thou deservest alone. E O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove, F Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave E To entertain the time with thoughts of love, F Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,

G And that thou teachest how to make one twain, G By praising him here who doth hence remain Apostrophe; calling to absence.

Rhyme Scheme of the sonnet

Paradox: The poet wants to make one force into two joined forces. This is a counterclaim to the theme of separation that is shown throughout the poem.