Daniela Sanchez and Jazmin Diaz

Ms. Gardner
English 10 Honors, Period 0
6 September 2014
Annotation for Sonnet #12
* = Alliteration * = Diction
* = Metaphor
* = Personification
* =Imagery
* = Problem

= Development * =

Solution
When I do count the

clock that tells the time, A

And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;

B
When I behold the violet past

prime, A

And sable curls, all silvered

o'er with white; B
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, C
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, D
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
C
Borne on the bier with
white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make, E

That thou among the wastes of time must go, F

Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
E
And die as fast as they see others grow; F
And nothing 'gainst Time's
scythe can make defence G
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee
hence. G