analysis of sonnet 29
...is caused by his being separated from the others, even more so because he envisions the youth in the company of others while the poet is “all alone.” There’s “men’s eyes” looking at him and also look down upon him. He would have “this man’s art” and “that man’s scope”, it indicates he wants to process what other men have. However, in the couplet the poet thinks of the love that he possesses. Thus, it ends with a positive affirmation that all is not lost that the poet's dear friend can compensate for the grief he feels and it does encourage him. Stylistically, sonnet 29 is typically Shakespearean in its form. It rhymes in abab cdcd efef gg. The first quatrain begins with a word “when” which I think stand out of the poem. It establishes a conditional argument and shows the poet’s frustra...