Chris Sachen, Sean Nussdorfer

Ms. Gardner
English 10 honors
1 September 2015
Personification:
Muse
references the
speakers
poetry pushing
the idea of love
and beauty into
the poem

Key:
Diction
Allusions
Imagery
Literary Devices

Sonnet #82
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I grant thou wert not married to my muse, A
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook B
The dedicated words which writers use A

Iambic pentameter
carries throughout
the poem.
The careful use
of the word
married brings
a sense of love
and beauty into
the poem

Problem

Of their fair subject, blessing every book. B

Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue, C
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise, D
And therefore art enforced to seek anew, C
The imagery of
strained touches
gives the feeling of
necessary
improvements of
something already
perfect.

Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days. D

This simile
compares her
knowledge to her
looks which is
slightly
contradicting what
the speaker is
saying because
he is
complimenting
her.

And do so love, yet when they have devised, E

What strained touches rhetoric can lend, F

these words stress the

speakers point about
being true in what you are
saying, but not over
emphasizing a point.

Development
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathized, E
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend. F

This image shows how the

writers rhetoric is more
detrimental to others than
beautifying to the ones they
intend to beautify

And their gross painting might be better used, G

Solution
Where cheeks need blood, in thee it is abused. G