Sonnet comparison
...e the sun”-line 1- In this line simile is used to compare his lover's eyes and the sun. He used the word "like" to try to make a comparison between his mistress' eyes and the sun. “Coral is far more red than her lips’ red”-line 2- in this line, the poet uses reiteration with ‘red’. It tries to tell that his mistress lips are very pale and bloodless. Metaphors are used when he mentions: “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun” –line 3- which describes the mistress breast brown and dun and not as pale as the beauty standard. “If hair be wires, then black wires grow on her head."-Line 4- which he says to describe the hair on her head which may indicate that his mistress' hair was long, straight and black the sonnet, he uses the first two iambic feet to make an "if" statement –anaphora-. He says "if snow be white" and "if hairs be wires." The parallel placement and parallel scansion of these lines highlights their contrast. According to beauty standards of Shakespeare's time, pale white breasts were beautiful, but Shakespeare's mistress has brown breasts. According to what people had found out about Shakespeare, his mistress was Italian. Italian women usually have thick black hair like symbol of being ITALIAN. So back in England, wiry hair was not considered beautiful, but Shakespeare said his mistress' hair was wiry. Both lines are divided so that four syllables are devoted to the "if" statement and six syllables (3 iambic feet) are devoted to the "then" statements. The comma found after the "if" statements creates a mid-line "caesura" or pause, such as is often found in classical poetry, which emphasizes the division of the line. When he says "I have seen roses demaske'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks”- Line 4,5-. He might have been implying that his lover's cheeks were not very red rosy nor natural shining but very bloodless. . In the lines 7 & 8, 9 & 10, the poet has been using Enjambment. “And in some perfumes is there no more delight / Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks”. “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know / That music hath a far more pleasing sound.” There is no punctuation used to connect these two lines. In these four lines, the poets are trying to tell that she has a bad smelly breaths, her voice is deep and masculine. As the sonnet goes on we see there is some sort of conflict in the lines: "My mistress as she walks, she treads on the ground”-Line 12- As if saying she is earthly in nature but during the previous lines he says that she seems to be a goddess. I believe he was trying to establish that he saw a heavenly beauty in her but she is still human and here on earth beside him. As if saying she is Heaven on earth. In the last lines: "And yet...