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A Critical Analysis of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138
Title: A Critical Analysis of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1484 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Critical Analysis of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138
In order for a poem to be classified as a sonnet, it must meet certain structural requirements, and Sonnet 138, “When my love swears that she is made of truth,” is a perfect example. Shakespeare employs the traditional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, the poem is made up of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, and iambic pentameter is the predominant meter. However, it would be an error to approach this poem as a traditional …showed first 75 words of 1484 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1484 total…knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told.
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flattered be.
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