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weak witness
alliteration
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hallowed
hallow: to make holy
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my Shakespeare
my Shakespeare; he's not so much referring to the actual Shakespeare, but his view of Shakespeare, implies a clear personal connection to his work
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
ABAB rhyme scheme, classic stanzaic structure, 4 quatrains
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying;
Compounding: rose-buds, Old Time, same flower
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Then be not coy, but use your time,
The message that you can't control the passage of time and eventually youth is spent and you die can seem defeating, but he adds that there are things you can control so you shouldn't take your opportunities and your autonomy for granted.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting.
Comparing the sun to heaven. When the sun is high, during the day, heaven is far away, the idea of death is out of mind but heaven overlooks everything from a distance. As the sun sets, heaven gets closer to us, we're no longer protected by its divinity, death meets us at ground level and confronts us eventually.
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