https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLgbAjRNGOA

This connects with this sonnet because this person really loved this person but they had to let them go. I think this relates because Shakespeare was in love, but they were slowly growing apart.

I think Shakespeare shouldn't have been with his love if he had doubts of whether or not she loved him. he thought she was cheating but he still was with her.

I did not understand what tenor meant, and why Shakespeare used thy.

thy: my tenor: the highest of the ordinary adult male range (singing)

This creates an iambic rhythm. The rhythm is kind of like counting out the syllables. The stressed words were doth, love, true, rest, and defeat. These were stressed because they needed to be sounded out clearly. They were making the beat. the unstressed words were mine, own, that, and my. These were unstressed because they mostly all had one syllable, so they did not create a rhythm .

This is some of the words I did not understand. "Dost thou" defines as do you.

The poem produces a volta. A volta is a change in the poet's thought process. This change in a poet's thought process usually occurs at the last two stanzas of a poem. In this sonnet, Shakespeare explains that he is in love with this women, and he is woken up from his sleep, thinking about her. He believes that she doesn't love him as much as he loves her. Then, he explains that she is keeping other men too close to her.

This poem has a rhyme scheme, I know this because in this particular poem it says, "Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee 5 So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me," In the first line, the ending word rhymes with the third lines ending word. "Thee" and "me" produce a rhyme scheme.

I'm not understanding why people think William Shakespeare is considered to be an American. I think people are just saying this because Romeo and Juliet is popular in North America.