first eight lines and the sestet of the last six lines where the variation in rhyme scheme also takes place. At this point, the tone change suggests the speaker has a blank mind due to an absence of imagination causing a lack of words to express the ideas that he is so filled with.On a more literal level, there are several aspects that compliment and are complimented by the structure of this poem, such as tone, metaphor, and other literary elements. Firstly, the speaker of this poem is a lover who is attempting to write to his love to try to make her feel so beloved and overtaken by the most perfect words he has chosen, yet in the midst of him trying to write, his mind goes blank and he cannot think of anything to say to her. The angry tone toward the end of the sonnet is evident by the speaker saying, "Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite" (line 13). The speaker also seems woeful when he says, "Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes" (line12) which is ironic because he is trying to make his love woeful, yet he is the one who is sad and wallowing in his pain. Through the fast-paced flow of the poem, we as readers are forced to understand that his anger is a legitimate result of "Nature" failing to grant him an imagination to compose love poetry. Our tendency to develop a mutual agreement that "Invention, Nature's child" (line 10) has passed him by causes the readers to overlook his personal inabilities and deters us from criticizing his senselessnessFurthermore, Sidney's use of metaphors as a literary device is much less apparent. The few metaphorical phrases are found in line seven where the speaker says "turning others' leaves," in line ten "some fresh and fruitful showers," and in line twelve "great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes." Within these few phrases of the poem, Sidney has created a dimension deeper than the literal which causes the reader to further examine them to revea...
