This is
going to be a bad week :( Seven things due in the next four days: Two tomorrow, three on Thursday, two more on
Friday. But for now, sonnet 80:
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LXXX
O! how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his
might,
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame!
But since your worth--wide as the ocean is,--
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or, being wrack'd, I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building, and of goodly pride:
Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this,--my love was my decay.
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List of
turns big and small that I am seeing here: the comma at the end of line 1, the
comma at the end of line 3, the but
at the ebginning fo line 5, the doth
in line 8, the comma at the end of line 9, the or at the beginning of line 11, the comma at the end of the same
line … the comma in the last line would be the main volta. The as
in line 6 has a delightful plurity of meaning
:) Another sonnet tomorrow—
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