Shakespeare Sonnet 126

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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 126 in one that consists of many different patterns that promotes many different emotional feelings. The Sonnet follows a consistent theme about lust while holding to a solid structure; the A-B-A-B scheme. This scheme set up is very evident within the first four lines and is continually consistent within every set of four lines thereafter with the exception of the last two lines in the sonnet. In the first set of four lines in the sonnet, the last word in the first and the third line rhyme just as the last word in the second line rhymes with the one in the fourth line. This scheme is uniform throughout the sonnet but it ends with the last two words of the last two lines that end up rhyming in an A-A sequence. The flow of the sonnet is smooth in some points and rough in others, just as it is rapid in some points and calmer in others. The sonnet also contains lines in which it seems to mirror itself and other lines where the words within it rhyme with each other. In a much grander scope, the sonnet resembles a mountain; it seems to have a peak precisely in the center, with the exception of the indented last two lines of the sonnet. All of these uniquely structured lines maintain three main emotional feelings to the sonnet, which happen to be confusion, frustration, and disgust.
The second line, though, proves to be a very interesting point to investigate. It is an example of a line that mirrors itself. For example, in “Is lust in action; and till action lust Is,” the word “and” appears to be the center of the line and all the other words are mirrored over it (“Is”, “Is”, “lust”, “lust”, “action”, “action”, “and”). As a result, when this line is read, it creates an emotional whirlpool effect in the mind of the reader, perhaps helping him/her understand the way Shakespeare is feeling at that particular point. Lines number three and four, “perjur’d, murd’rous, bloody, full of...