Volta project, part 102

Tuesday morning.  Sonnet 102:

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CII

  My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;

  I love not less, though less the show appear;

  That love is merchandiz'd, whose rich esteeming,

  The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

  Our love was new, and then but in the spring,

  When I was wont to greet it with my lays;

  As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,

  And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:

  Not that the summer is less pleasant now

  Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,

  But that wild music burthens every bough,

  And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

    Therefore like her, I sometime hold my tongue:

    Because I would not dull you with my song.

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In the first two lines, the cæsuræ have the nature of voltas, and are even followed by the standard turn marker though.  The next two lines introduce the point of the sonnet, but stated in terms of how to do it wrong.  This one is a very deliberate poem  J  Lines 5–6 return to the lyric I (and the lyric You), and the following line introduces the simile, which is interwoven with the I and the You throughout the rest of the poem.  The opening words of most of the remaining lines are turns  J  In fact, every one of them except the and at the beginning of line 12.