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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
- O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
- Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
B group
- For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
- So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
C group
- Make answer, Muse: wilt thou not haply say
- Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
D group
- 'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;
- But best is best, if never intermix'd?'
E group
- Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
- To make him much outlive a gilded tomb,
F group
- Excuse not silence so; for't lies in thee
- 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.
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even so as foes commend.
In my opinion this person must be pretty cool if even their roachy foes are commending them.
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Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
"parts...thee...world's...view" are all stressed for emphasis on the importance of the words.
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To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
Flower and weeds are stressed here for the effect of comparison
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And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds
The iambic pentameter is easily identified here stressing on the words "that, guess, measure, and deeds"
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In other accents do this praise confound
Confound means to surprise or confuse.
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Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,
Churls is the plural form of the word "Churl" which means an impolite or mean person.
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But why thy odour matcheth not thy show, The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.
The rhyme scheme follows A,B,A,B,-C,C. The ending words all rhyme in this sequence: view,mend, due, commend, crown'd, own, confound, shown, mind, deeds, kind, weeds. Then followed by the C,C: show and grow.
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decree
Decree: is law, rule, or standard.
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SONNET XCIII
Sonnet 93 follows the Rhyme Scheme of: A, B, A, B, C, D, E, D, E, F, E, F, G, G.
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