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6th Period - D - Sonnet 60

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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6TH-D-SONNET 60

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LIKE AS A WAVE MAKE TOWARDS THE PEBBLED SHORE,

Figurative devices: Imagery and metaphor.
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SO DO OUR MINUTES HASTEN TO THEIR END;

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EACH CHANGING PLACE WITH THAT WHICH GOES BEFORE,

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IN SEQUENT TOIL ALL FORWARDS DO CONTEND.

Difficult language:

Sequent toil: consecutive laborious procession.


Paraphrase:

Time is moving forward like the waves pushing toward shore in an ocean.

NATIVITY, ONCE INTHE MAIN OF LIGHT,

Literacy devices:

Personification and pun.
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CRAWLS TO MATURITY, WHEREWITH BEING CROWN'D,

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CROOKED ECLIPSES 'GAINST HIS GLORY FIGHT,

Difficult language:

Crooked eclipses: setbacks or day to night, life to death.
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AND TIME THAT GAVE DOTH NOW HIS GIFT CONFOUND.

Difficult language:

Confound: destroy



Paraphrase:

In the progression of life, born into light, but like an eclipse, light goes away, resembling death.

TIME DOTH TRANSFIX THE FLOURISH SET ON YOUTH

Literary devices:

Personification.


Difficult language:

Transfix the flourish: kills and destroys youthful beauty.

AND DELVES THE PARALLELS IN BEAUTY'S BROW,

FEEDS ON THE RARITIES OF NATURE'S TRUTH,

AND NOTHING STANDS BUT FOR HIS SCYTHE TO MOW:

Difficult language:

Scythe: exists, grows.



Paraphrase:

Time takes away beauty.
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AND YET TO TIMES IN HOPE, MY VERSE SHALL STAND

Literary devices:

Personification.

PRAISING THY WORTH, DESPITE HIS CRUEL HAND.

Difficult language:

Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand: praising beloved, despite time.



Paraphrase:

Poetry is eternal.
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MARY PARRISH&ANNELYN CHANG

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