Double digits! :)

Sonnet ten:

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  For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,

  Who for thy self art so unprovident.

  Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many,

  But that thou none lov'st is most evident:

  For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate,

  That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,

  Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate

  Which to repair should be thy chief desire.

  O! change thy thought, that I may change my mind:

  Shall hate be fairer lodg'd than gentle love?

  Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,

  Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:

    Make thee another self for love of me,

    That beauty still may live in thine or thee.

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The power of non-falsifiable speech!  In perfect Ciceronian form, the indicative—lines 4–8—is comfortably sandwiched between

1.      an interjection and an imperative in line 1,

2.      a (relative that’s really working as a) vocative in line 2, and

3.      another imperative (but with indicative overtones, leading into the indicative section) in line 3

before it, and

1.      another interjection and another imperative in line 9,

2.      an interrogative in line 10, and

3.      a longer section of pure imperatives in lines 11–14

after it.

I’m calling all of lines 9–10 the volta in this one.