Close Reading of Shakespeares' Sonnet 12 and 17

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English

 

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Alphonso A

 

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July 3, 2012

 

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University

 

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B

 

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This paper will discuss two of Shakespeare's sonnets and examine these qualities to see exactly how he brings these things into dramatic effect. The sonnets being discussed will be Sonnet 12 and Sonnet 17. I find that these two poems can be compared easily and also share a similar theme: the denial of the ability of mankind to see the same beauty the poet sees in words that makes the subject so interesting...
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Both poems have the following rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. In both of these sonnets, meter and rhyme are used interestingly. Sonnet 17 starts out in an interesting way in that it does not rhyme in the traditional sense. The key words of note here are, "come" and "tomb", and "deserts" and "parts", in comparison, every other line ending in both sonnets ends in traditional rhyme, such as, "eyes" and "lies", or "age" and "rage"...
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