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(By Fatin & Faiza)

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Alliteration
"Haply, I think on thee -- and then my state,"

Assonance
"And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries"

Repetition
"Featured like him, like him with friends possessed"

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Slow
-each line contains 10 to 11 syllables which slows down the movement of the poem.

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Simile (the “lark”)
“Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate”

Metaphor (heaven)
“And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”
“From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate”

Personification (deaf heaven)
“And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”

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The language is appropriate to the subject and the theme of the poem.
The words used by the poet managed to convey the intended emotion of the sonnet.

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The sonnet has a standard sonnet structure;
- 3 quatrain
- 1 concluding couplet

10 to 11 syllables in each line

Rhyming scheme:
abab,
cdcd,
efef,
gg.

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-At the beginning, the poem started with a depressing tone.
-However, towards the end, it changed into an uplifiting tone.

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Depression
- The persona was depressed because he felt that he has no friends and God was not helping him. He had no one to comfort him which left him all alone.

Love
- Even thought the persona was in a difficult time, the love that he felt by a “special someone” in his life was so powerful that it helps the speaker to recover from his sadness.

Wealth
- The persona mentioned wealth multiple times, be it spiritual wealth of economic wealth. In the end, even though the persona was not wealthy economically, he was content with being wealthy spiritually as he felt loved.

Religion
- There were many mentions of God and Heaven in the sonnet. The persona felt neglected by God because he was in a slump.

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At the beginning of this sonnet, the persona was feeling depressed because of his misfortune and he was looked down upon by other people. Even though he prayed to God, he felt like no one was listening to him. As he was cursing his state, he started to desire other people's fortune, talent and fame. Because of this, he felt discontented with the things that he would usually enjoy. However, as he started to think of someone in his life, he started to feel better about himself. This special person made the persona felt so happy that he compared himself to a “lark” that flew up to the heaven. Finally, the persona realized that as long as he has that special someone, his life is not that bad after all. In fact, the person's love is so rich that the persona would not even trade places with the King.

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When I'm having bad luck and am looked down upon by other people, I cry alone in self-pity,
And pray, though it seems like no one hears my prayers, and feel sorry for myself,
Wishing I were more like someone with more hope in his life, or someone very handsome, or popular,
Wanting one person's talent, and another's opportunity, and things that usually make me happy only making me more upset;
Yet, as I’m thinking these thoughts and almost hating myself, I happen to think about you, and then my condition improves,
Like a lark at daybreak rising up and leaving the earth far behind to sing hymns to God. ;
Because thinking of your love makes me feel so rich that I wouldn't switch places with kings.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.