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    The speaker addresses Time directly, pleading with it not to destroy beauty or mark the face of their love with wrinkles. They acknowledge Time's power to consume all things but forbid it from harming their love's appearance. While Time can do its worst, the speaker vows that their love will remain eternally young through their poetic verses.

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    The speaker addresses Time directly, pleading with it not to destroy beauty or mark the face of their love with wrinkles. They acknowledge Time's power to consume all things but forbid it from harming their love's appearance. While Time can do its worst, the speaker vows that their love will remain eternally young through their poetic verses.

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    The speaker addresses Time directly, pleading with it not to destroy beauty or mark the face of their love with wrinkles. They acknowledge Time's power to consume all things but forbid it from harming their love's appearance. While Time can do its worst, the speaker vows that their love will remain eternally young through their poetic verses.

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    The speaker addresses Time directly, pleading with it not to destroy beauty or mark the face of their love with wrinkles. They acknowledge Time's power to consume all things but forbid it from harming their love's appearance. While Time can do its worst, the speaker vows that their love will remain eternally young through their poetic verses.

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    Sonnet 19 by William Shakespeare Apostrophe: speaker is not being realistic, and sets up

    one on one conversation between Time and the speaker.


    U / U / U / U / U / Suggests that speaker considers Time be a peer, and
    Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, (a) disregards the power Time has
    Personification: the speaker personifies earth so
    U / U / U / U / U / we can better feel sympathy for her.
    And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; (b) Consonance: the letter r makes a
    rumbling sound, which suggests
    / U / / U / U / U / power, like a lions roar
    Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, (a) Trochee meter: Stressed syllable first
    then unstressed syllable. He changes
    U / U / U / U / U / the meter here in order create
    abruptness and fierceness.
    And burn the long-liv'd Phoenix in her blood; (b)
    Consonance: the harsh sounds of the repeated
    / U U / / U / U / U consonants correlate to the harshness of Times
    Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets, (c) power, since time will disintegrate everything

    U / / U / U / U / U Allusion: alludes to the Phoenix, a


    mythical bird originating from Greek
    And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time, (d) mythology.
    / U / / U / U / U / Consonance: the repeated s
    sound resembles time passing
    To the wide world and all her fading sweets; (c)
    Imagery: the strong and clear
    U / U / U / U / U / images like tigers teeth and the
    Phoenix emphasize how Time has
    But I forbid thee one more heinous crime: (d)
    the power to disintegrate powerful
    U / U / U / U / U / beings
    Alliteration; the way the phrase wide
    O, carve not with the hours my love's fair brow, (e) worldsmoothly flows of the tongue
    U / U / U / U / U / furthers the impression of the world
    being endless, since there is nothing
    Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen! (f) stopping the borders of the world nor the
    tongue
    U / U / U / U / U /
    Metaphor: the markings of a pen are used as a
    Him in thy course untainted do allow (e)
    metaphor for wrinkles. The choice of a pen is
    symbolic since the sonnet can be written in pen,
    U / U / U / U / U / and the poet is begging time not to make any marks
    For beauty's pattern to succeeding men. (f) with a pen, using a pen himself
    U / U / U / U / U / Iambic meter: Unstressed syllable
    first then stressed syllable, most
    Yet do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong, (g)
    common meter throughout
    U / U / U / U / U / Consonance: the repetition of v leaves the speakers
    My love shall in my verse ever live young. (g) last words ringing on the readers mind since the v
    vibrates with energy when it is pronounced

    Bracket = Quatrain Quatrain I and lines 5 - 7: Line 8 and Quatrain III: Couplet: Solution
    Brace = Couplet Problem Development

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