...and Pisa) The term for this effect is: A Epanalepsis B Gradatio C Epistrope 19 In the extract below: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18) (In normal usage we would write: Sometime the eye of heaven shines too hot...

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...goose-step over the content. There is understatement throughout, as if the poet reminds himself and us that: 'rough winds do shake the darling buds of May / and Summer's lease hath all to short a date'. Richard Montgomery ISBN 1 905425 317 ...

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...Eighteenth sonnet: out loud, please, or as near as dammit: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds...dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, 26 But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death...

...imagery. SONNETS 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds...of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd;...

...love sonnets do. First, let us consider the original sonnet: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds...Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often in his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature's changing...

...perfection but by finding fault with the day itself: it is too rough, too short, too hot, too cloudy: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And...heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; Yet worse is to follow, much worse: actually, the beloved is told, you are not more lovely even than...