Sonnet nine:
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IX
Is it for fear
to wet a widow's eye,
That thou
consum'st thy self in single life?
Ah! if thou
issueless shalt hap to die,
The world will
wail thee like a makeless wife;
The world will
be thy widow and still weep
That thou no
form of thee hast left behind,
When every
private widow well may keep
By children's
eyes, her husband's shape in mind:
Look! what an
unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his
place, for still the world enjoys it;
But beauty's
waste hath in the world an end,
And kept
unused the user so destroys it.
No love
toward others in that bosom sits
That on
himself such murd'rous shame commits.
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Either I’m getting dumber by the day, or the turns are
getting harder to spot L My guess on this one: The volta is the but at the beginning of line 11.
More tomorrow—
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