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My mistress' eyes

The title only means that it is 130 in a group of love poems, probably to the same person. The poem has no unusual shape. It has 14 lines and is contains four stanzas; three quatrains and one couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. The sonnet type is (of course) Shakespearean. It is in iambic pentameter and the first quatrain presented the problem, the second and third expanded upon it, and the couplet solved the problem with his saying he loved her anyway.

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Posted by: Jessica Linton

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