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Problem: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck, 1

He doesn’t look A
to the stars for
answers or
And yet methinks I have astronomy, Pluck and luck: strong, 2
predictions of consonant sounds B
what is to come But not to tell of good or evil luck, 3
When people didn’t have enough A
Alluding to zodiac signs
food (from 1594-1596)
and how they can tell 4
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality; 1592-93 something about a person
plague B
Development: Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell, reference 5
He can decipher C
other people’s
Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind, Sensory 6
feelings but not imagery +
hers.
D
personification
Or say with princes if it shall go well, 7
C
By oft predict that I in heaven find; 8
D
Solution: But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive, 9
This woman’s E
beauty has to
And, constant stars, in them I read such art 10
live on through a
child, because
F
she is the only 11
good person left
As truth and beauty shall together thrive, Personification
E
in his eyes.
12
If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert; To foretell or see into F
the future
13
  Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
Couplet: G
If she dies 14
without a child,  Thy end is truth’s and beauty’s doom and date.
her beauty and Hyperbole G
veracity will
die with her

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