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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 Annotations

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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