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The concluding couplet either provides a decisive stamp on the arguments made in the poem or subvert them.

This theme is thoroughly developed from sonnets 1-16, but now in sonnet 17 closely related to sonnet 16 , something begins to happen — there is a singularity or what we might call a discontinuity in mathematical terms, in regards to the hypothesis that came before: Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were filled with your most high deserts? If I fail to evoke the same in my audience then I would have failed to breach the ramparts and the gates shielding my innermost chamber, Our collective soul.

The image of a dictator-like king whose kingdom is no more creates a palpable irony.

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I knew that in the novel of my compulsion I would have to expose this chamber, Ramparts and heavy gates destroyed once and for all.

Or even something about her physical appearance would have been better than nothing.

The first 126 are directed to a young man whom the speaker urges to marry, but this man then becomes the object of the speaker's desire.

In our modern history of tragic theatre, Macbeth has no equal.

It retrieves from my memory, endless thoughts.