Volta project, part 101! :)

Blogging very late again (long drive to Ann Arbor and back).  Today’s sonnet:

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  O truant Muse what shall be thy amends

  For thy neglect of truth in beauty dy'd?

  Both truth and beauty on my love depends;

  So dost thou too, and therein dignified.

  Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say,

  'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;

  Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;

  But best is best, if never intermix'd'?

  Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?

  Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee

  To make him much outlive a gilded tomb

  And to be prais'd of ages yet to be.

    Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how

    To make him seem long hence as he shows now.

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The first turn is the for’t in line 10, the second the then at the beginning of the closing couplet.  I think the how at the end of the penultimate line might be a third turn?  Enjambements are relatively rare in Shakespeare’s sonnets, and this one’s way late in the poem  J  More tomorrow—