Volta project, week two :)

Okay, second week  J  Here’s sonnet eight:

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VIII

  Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

  Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:

  Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,

  Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?

  If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,

  By unions married, do offend thine ear,

  They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds

  In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.

  Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,

  Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;

  Resembling sire and child and happy mother,

  Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:

    Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,

    Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'

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The first line shows you how beautiful an interrogative can be  J  The whole first quatrain is an interrogative, the second quatrain an indicative, the third an indicative lightly disguised by the opening mark how.  The closing couplet is a relative clause … where’s the volta?  I’ll go with the mark at the beginning of the ninth line.

And Shakespeare’s into Math again (he did that thing with the ten and the ten times ten on Saturday) … in today’s sonnet, he reminds me of the following bit from the first part of Goethe’s Faust:

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Du mußt versteh’n!

Aus Eins mach Zehn,

Und Zwei laß geh’n,

Und Drei mach gleich,

So bist Du reich.

Verlier die Vier!

Aus Fünf und Sechs,

So sagt die Hex’,

Mach Sieben und Acht,

So ist's vollbracht:

Und Neun ist Eins,

Und Zehn ist keins.

Das ist das Hexen-Einmaleins!