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Religious
diction is used
to show the
main theme,
love is a sin.

Problem relays
to the speakers
problem, he/she is
stating that love is
his/her sin..

The word sin is being

used for repetition to
show that the speaker is
meaning that his/her love
is, in fact, a sin.

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Love is / my sin, /and thy / dear vir / tue hate,

Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,

O but with mine, compare thou thine own state, a

Development:
The speaker
explains the
reason why
love is a sin.

Dark imagery is used to

help the reader or listener
A saddened
understand what the
metaphor is used speaker is trying to say.
because the poet The word, scarlet, is most
is comparing love likely something that
and a sin.
refers to blood.
Lawful/Economic diction is
used to show how the poet is
speaking as if love is a boss
that takes everything away.
Fake
personification is
used to show love
can be deceiving.

Or if it do, not from those lips of thine,

That have profaned their scarlet ornaments,

And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine,

Robbed others' beds' revenues of their rents.

Be it lawful I love thee as thou lov'st those,

Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee, f

Pitiful personification: it is
saying that pity will grow
in the listeners heart.
Paradox is shown as
someone who is
hiding something
they want to find.

And thou shalt find it merits not reproving,

Root pity in thy heart that when it grows,

Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,

By self-example mayst thou be denied.

Solution

Heroic Couplet: The last two

lines explain that if the
listener is seeking what
he/she is hiding, they will be
disappointed to find nothing.