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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.

    1. even so as foes commend.

      In my opinion this person must be pretty cool if even their roachy foes are commending them.

    2. 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.

    3. To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:

      Flower and weeds are stressed here for the effect of comparison

    4. 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"

    5. In other accents do this praise confound

      Confound means to surprise or confuse.

    6. 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.

    7.  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.