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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Sonnets 54 - 62

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Violli, Unicio J.
Affiliation: Associate Professor Of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Sonnets 54 - 62

(54) - "o, how much more . . ."

Summary:

Dog-roses can imitate genuine roses except for their odors; but your
beauty can be distilled in my verse when your beauty fades.

Paraphrase

1. O, how much more lovely does beauty seem

2. when truth embellishes it!

3. The rose looks lovely, but we consider it more lovely

4. for the sweet odor it gives off.

5. The dog-roses have as deep a color

6. as the perfumed ...

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