Sonnet 147
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Sonnet 147 is one of William Shakespeare’s later, darker sonnets, in which he portrays love as a destructive, feverish madness.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English sonnet
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Shakespearean sonnet ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| addressee | Dark Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionPeriod | late 16th century ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMetaphor | love as fever ⓘ |
| closingLine |
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
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Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ⓘ |
| collectionPosition | among the final sonnets in the Dark Lady sequence ⓘ |
| contrasts |
idealized beauty and moral blackness
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light and darkness ⓘ reason and passion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| firstPersonSpeaker | unreliable lover ⓘ |
| form | sonnet ⓘ |
| hasCoupletFunction | delivers final moral and emotional reversal ⓘ |
| imagery |
darkness
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disease ⓘ fever ⓘ hell ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Elizabethan literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| numberInSequence | 147 ⓘ |
| openingLine | My love is as a fever, longing still ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dark Lady sonnets
NERFINISHED
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Shakespearean sonnets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysBelovedAs |
dark
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morally corrupt ⓘ |
| portraysLoveAs |
diseased
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irrational ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ⓘ |
| theme |
destructive love
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irrational passion ⓘ jealousy ⓘ loss of reason ⓘ madness ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
| tone |
bitter
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dark ⓘ despairing ⓘ |
| workTitle | Sonnet 147 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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