Saturday, September 28, 2013

Volta project, day six

Back from Ann Arbor.  Here’s sonnet six:
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VI

  Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
  In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
  Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
  With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd.
  That use is not forbidden usury,
  Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
  That's for thy self to breed another thee,
  Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
  Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
  If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
  Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
  Leaving thee living in posterity?
    Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
    To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
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Hiding the indicative (and the math!) between a pair of imperatives and an interrogative  J

The volta is … the for in the penultimate line? 


And:  The last line really carries some serious weight!

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