Sunday, November 24, 2013

Snow already

Snow at quarter to December.  Sonnet 72:
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LXXII

  O! lest the world should task you to recite
  What merit lived in me, that you should love
  After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
  For you in me can nothing worthy prove;
  Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
  To do more for me than mine own desert,
  And hang more praise upon deceased I
  Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
  O! lest your true love may seem false in this
  That you for love speak well of me untrue,
  My name be buried where my body is,
  And live no more to shame nor me nor you.
    For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,
    And so should you, to love things nothing worth.
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The for at the beginning of line 4 can count as a turn.  The unless at the beginning of line 5 is definitely a turn, but is reversed by the turn O! lest at the beginning of line 9.  The for at the beginning of the closing couplet, as well as the and at the beginning of the last line, are the other turns I’m seeing here.

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