Volta project, before the midterm

Blogging before I go fail Listening with Dr. Bechler.  Sonnet 69:

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LXIX

  Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view

  Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;

  All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,

  Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.

  Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;

  But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,

  In other accents do this praise confound

  By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.

  They look into the beauty of thy mind,

  And that in guess they measure by thy deeds;

  Then--churls--their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,

  To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:

    But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,

    The soil is this, that thou dost common grow.

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Multiple turns, in the style of Dante  J  The but at the beginning of line 6 is the first:  The first five lines set up a status quo, and this volta breaks that status quo.  The they at the beginning of the third quatrain is a second turn:  lines 6–8, in their contrast with lines 1–5, constitute a paradox, and now the paradox is stated explicitly, by explicating the seeing farther of line 8.  Finally, the but at the beginning of the closing couplet is a third volta, marking the beginning of an explanation of the root cause of the problem.  I love the wordplay, which is brought to a climax with the soil and the inversion common grow in the last line  J  More tomorrow—