sonnets

The way Shakespeare writes his sonnets rhyme scheme is that after each quatrain, it breaks up each by starting new rhymes. They aren’t connected at all so it doesn’t flow that well. Spencer’s though he connects each quatrain which makes the poem flow much more. I like Spencer a lot more because it connects each part together, instead of starting and stopping.

In Shakespeare’s he’s asking if he should compare someone to a summer’s day but decides he shouldn’t because the person is better. In the second point of view he says that a summer’s day can be bad because it can be too bright. The turn he talks about that the person will remain eternal and never loss his beauty. The conclusion is the person is eternal through his writing.
In the question Spencer is asking why do I love you so much when they are so much opposites. The view he’s explaining how she is so different then him. In the turn he explains that naturally they shouldn’t even be able to existence with each other. The conclusion he says that love doesn’t follow nature because it is more powerful.

Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, A
But came the waves and washed it away: B
Again I wrote it with a second hand, A
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. B

He’s saying that when he tries to write her name it always eventually goes away no matter how many times he trys.

Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay B
A mortal thing so to immortalize, C
For I myself shall like to this decay, B
And eek my name be wiped out likewise. C

The women tells him it’s a mortal thing to try and make something immortal and that she will decay like everything else.

Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise C
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: D
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, C
And in the heavens write your glorious name. D

He replies that only the basic things decay and that she isn’t basic because she will live forever through this poem.

Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue, E
Out love shall live, and later life renew. E

That our love will never die.
William ShakespeareSonnet 39
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, AWhen thou art all the better part of me? BWhat can mine own praise to mine own self bring? AAnd what is 't but mine own when I praise thee? B
The person is my better part of me. So I can’t praise you with out parsing my self
Even for this let us divided live, CAnd our dear love lose name of single one, DThat by this separation I may give CThat due to thee which thou deservest alone. D
Let us go away so I can praise you with what you deserve
O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove, EWere it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave FTo entertain the time with thoughts of love, EWhich time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive, F
While your gone it torments me but while were gone we love each other more.
And that thou teachest how to make one twain, G By praising him here who doth hence remain! G
Let us make us two, one





What is this Vestige
Is it just a name for a group
Or is it united by a liege
Or does it go in a endless loop?

When it sends the troops
With disciple unmatched
In victory their isn’t even a whoop
Even if they aren’t scratched
Yet if the soldiers are dispatched
Then are they really so prestigious
As if this ideal were attached
Yet they keep their stance of aegis

Alone they stand with such prestige
Are respected by all that is Vestige