Rhyming couplet

One of two rhyming lines

Collins in this piece is trying to say that sonnets are structured poems that have many different formal or creative alleys that can transform the sonnets. Whether they're Petrarchan or Shakespearean, Collins uses lines of imagery to indicate that these sonnets are small ways to vividly describe life

I think it's a mix of satire and celebration. "Iambic bongos" and "crazy medieval tights" are the lines that really indicate to the reader that it's supposed to be comical. While "to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas" and "where longing and heartache will find an end" are lines that purpose a more serious and capitvated tone.

"Cavern" is an interesting adjective for kindness. Cavern kindness in the sense that their love is akin to neanderthals, a deeply human love--or cavern in the sense that there's a large cave of kindness wound within their relationship?

The capitalization here is interesting. I don't really know what to make of it. Usually when something like this is capitalized, it's referring to God but in this sense I'm not really sure.

I read this line as the speaker describing how she feels in an abusive relationship, with tone words like "thrown" and "scraped" the relationship doesn't seem very gentle or genuine.

Alleys usually have a negative connotation--muggings, assaults. While halls are places of social communication. The juxtaposition here highlights how the speaker feels torn between how society sees her love and how she truly feels.

Interesting couplet here, continues the hurried tone created in the last line, with "Run." Demonstrates the need for discretion and the lack of perception the speaker feels is needed for her relationship.

Volta: Tells the reader that every image above is the birthright.