- Apr 2016
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Thou dost beguile the world
What Shakespeare is trying to say here, that this person's bad ways have charmed the world, in a deceiving way.
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Die single, and thine image dies with thee.
This is another example of an iambic pentameter, "Die" is unstressed, "sin-" is stressed, "-gle" is unstressed, "and" is stressed, "thine" is unstressed, "im-" is stressed, "-age" is unstressed, "dies" is stressed, " with" is unstressed, "thee" is stressed.
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But if thou live, remember'd not to be,
This is one example of the iambic pentameter, "But" is unstressed, "is" is stressed, "thou" is unstressed, "live" is stressed, "re-" is unstressed, "mem" is stressed, "-ber'd" is unstressed, "not" is stressed,"to" is unstressed, "be" is stressed.
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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
The volta begins here, because before this line, Shakespeare was writing about how this person should change their ways, now from this line and on, Shakespeare is writing about something else entirely than change.
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For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb 5 Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
The rhyme scheme in the entire poem is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This may be one example but the whole rhyme is: A-viewest B- another A- renewest B- mother, C- womb D- husbandry C- tomb D- posterity, E- thee F- prime E- see F- time, G- be G- thee
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beguile
Beguile means to charm or enchant someone, sometimes in a deceptive way. The use of it in this sonnet is, Shakespeare started out this poem saying that this person should change their ways and when he is using the word beguile, is explaining is that this person should stop being deceiving and deceptive.
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Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another;
What Shakespeare is trying to say here is this person should change their ways because their old ways were bad.
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Now Shakespeare’s plays became part of the debate about what it meant to be an American,
Shakespeare has definitely influenced American poetry and writing, and it shows how important he was to our society.
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