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  1. Apr 2016
    1. O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed? Both truth and beauty on my love depends; So dost thou too, and therein dignified. Make answer, Muse: wilt thou not haply say 5 'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd; Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay; But best is best, if never intermix'd?' Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb? Excuse not silence so; for't lies in thee 10 To make him much outlive a gilded tomb, And to be praised of ages yet to be.     Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how     To make him seem long hence as he shows now.

      Rhymes: A group

      1. O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
      2. Both truth and beauty on my love depends;

      B group

      1. For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
      2. So dost thou too, and therein dignified.

      C group

      1. Make answer, Muse: wilt thou not haply say
      2. Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;

      D group

      1. 'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;
      2. But best is best, if never intermix'd?'

      E group

      1. Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
      2. To make him much outlive a gilded tomb,

      F group

      1. Excuse not silence so; for't lies in thee
      2. And to be praised of ages yet to be.

      Iambic pentameter: In line 3, the stressed words are: truth, beauty, love, depends. In line 6, the stressed words are: needs, colour(x2),. In line 11, the stressed words are: make, much, outlive, and gilded.

      Sonnet Analysis: In the sonnet Shakespeare writes of how the Muse is not better than him and how better and best should not be intermixed, and at the end of the poem, in a cocky fashion, he writes that he is willing to teach her his ways.