Full many a glorious morning I have seen.
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,.
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,.
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;.
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride.
With ugly rack on his celestial face,.
And from the forlorn world his visage hide, .
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Even so my sun one early morn did shine.
With all triumphant splendor on my brow;.
But out, alack, he was but one hour mine;.
The region cloud hath masked him from me now.
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth:.
Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.
-William Shakespeare.
Sonnet #34.
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,.
And make me travel forth without my cloak,.
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,.
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?.
'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,.
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,.
For no man well of such a salve can speak.
That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace:.
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;.
Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:.
The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief.
To him that bears the strong offence's cross.
Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,.
And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds.
-William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare's sonnets are grouped in sequence in which they tell a story or suggest a story. Sonnet's 18 through 126 are focused on a beloved young man. I chose to analyze sonnet's 33 and 34 because there are an exceptional amount of examples of literary terms that we have discussed throughout the semester. They can also be compared and contrasted while also reaching a deeper meaning and better understanding of how the individual sonnet and paired sonnets fit into the entire sequence.
First, sonnets 33 and 34 possess a tremendous amount of literary forms. These poems are fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme of both is abab cdcd efef gg and the rhyme is almost entirely masculine, meaning the rhyme sound is the last syllable of the line.
