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rejected as the "stretched metre of an antique song"; "stretched" firstly intends 'exaggerated,' but was used technically of earlier poetic styles. "Antique song" is both ancient and distorted ('antic') song. The sonnet ends with a typical notion that should the young man have a child, he shall live both in the child and in the poet's rhyme.
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Shakespeare argues that his descriptions are not strong enough, and do not do justice to the man's beauty ("If I could write the beauty of your eyes"). Again, if the poet could number all the youth's graces in "fresh numbers," then future times would accuse him of falsehood. Future ages would say,
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The poet asks who would believe his verse in the future ("in time to come"), if the youth's true excellence ("most high deserts") were to "fill" his verse. The poet's verse is inadequate; "heaven knows" is either an exclamation or part of the sentence: 'heaven knows that his verse is but a tomb'
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The poet's manuscripts ("my papers"), once they are discolored ("yellowed") with age, will be the subject of ridicule ("scorn'd"), just as "old men of less truth then tongue" are derided. What the youth is truly owed ("your true rights") could be dismissed in the future as "a poet's rage," or
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1.5.32) 'it is the touch that perfects the man,' which was an expression from carvers who in modelling gave the finishing touch to their work with the nail ("
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on the poet, or they are the strokes of the brush or chisel of a divinely inspired hand, which, having 'touched' an earthly face, makes it perfect.
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based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The sonnet's fourth line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:
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The twelfth line features a mimetic stretching into two syllables of the word "stretched" to fit the metre:
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The sixth line exhibits two fairly common variations, a final extrametrical syllable or
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Shakespeares Sonnets: Being a reproduction in facsimile of the first edition
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Sonnet 17 questions the poet's descriptions of the sequence's
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Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
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Such heavenly touches ne’er touch’d earthly faces.”
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The first two lines of Sonnet 17 in the 1609 Quarto
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154 sonnets
William Shakespeare
procreation sonnets
Fair Youth
young man
Sonnet 130
sonnet
quatrains
couplet
iambic pentameter
meter
Muses
Sonnet 85
Horace
Satires
Sermones
unguem
Richard Attenborough
compilation album
When Love Speaks
EMI Classics
The Works of Shakespeare: Sonnets
OCLC
4770201
Booth, Stephen
cite book

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