Scansion Debates of Shakespeare's Famous Lines: Sonnet Edition
The GEB is back with a sequel to our popular post, Scansion Debates of Shakespeare's Famous Lines . In that post, we took 5 different lines from 5 different plays and presented and analyzed ways to scan them. Now, let's do the same with the sonnets. The sonnet is printed in its entirety. Below are the scansion options: stressed syllables are marked in bold and underlined, while unstressed syllables appear in plain type. Differences from the previous scansion are highlighted in yellow. 1. "As any she belied with false compare." (Sonnet 130) My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far
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