Sonnet 29

Sonnet 29

Sonnet 29, by William Shakespeare, has the characteristics of a lyric poem. This is due to him expressing his feelings about the earth, heavens and the women he loves. For example, in the first few lines he talks about how he hates life and how he isn’t happy. Later on, he tells us how the heavens are a glorious and the earth is dark and how he doesn’t have peace. Later on he states that the love for the women that he loves is what makes him happy. Then he compares her love too the birds in the morning.

Sonnet 29 is written as a Shakespearean sonnet or English sonnet. People know William Shakespeare’s sonnets as Shakespearean sonnets or English sonnets which have a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrains and a concluding couplet. Sonnet 29 has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EBEB FF. After reading and examining Sonnet 29 it seems to me that this sonnet is written in iambic pentameter which means that there are five feet per line.

I feel that the tone of Sonnet 29 is sad and depressed. I feel this because they use the word beweep that means to weep over something or to grieve. They also use the word despising which means to regard with hate. Also he uses the word sullen which means gloomy, dark and also the word scorn which means feeling worthless. It just makes me feel sad and lonely like there is no reason to be around because it seems that no one cares about him. I feel that there is a sense of lonliness as well with in the sonnet.

Shakespeare then leads me to his underlying meaning of his sonnet. In Sonnet 29, I think that Shakespeare is trying to show us his true feelings about life and love. In the third stanza it seems like he is trying to portray that life on earth is like hell. There is evidence in his work showing that he feels this way because he states in line 12 that the earth is sullen which also means that it is bad, gloomy and dark. He also states in line 12, “sing hymns at heavens gates” which to mean seems like he is saying that...