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The Shakespearean Sonnet

ound is used throughout these four lines to extend time, to make the liens seem longer, and so to emphasize the passage of time. In the first line the long "a" is heard in "waves" and "makes," in the second in "hasten," in the third in "changing" and "place." In the last line, the long "a" is absent, but the long "e" in "sequent" and the long combination of sounds in "toil" have much the same effect.

Having set up the basic premise, that time passes and always moves forward, Shakespeare turns to the life cycle more directly in the next stanza. Here he takes the reader from birth to old age and does so in compact language:

Nativity, once in the main of light,

Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned,

Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,

And Time that gave doth now his gift confound (5-8).

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