Assignment 1 1. The rhyme scheme of the poem is abab cdcd efef gg 2. The tone of the poem refers to the emotional resonance, the feeling of the speaker. ”My Mistress eyes are nothing like the sun” 3. I agree that “in this poem the speaker seems to be mocking or making fun of the Mistress’s looks”. The speaker mentioned the idealised version of female beauty namely the idea of “rose” in a woman cheek “But no such roses see in her cheeks”. 4. It refers from the classical Petrarchan sonnet in that is not idealised or romanticise a woman’s beauty. I would like to mention the first line where the speaker says “My Mistress eyes are nothing like the sun”. He mentions the idealised version of female beauty. 5. A simile is a comparison that uses the word “like” or “as” in the poem we read “My Mistress eyes are nothing like a sun”, this line compares the mistress’s eyes to the sun. A metaphor is a comparison that does not use the word “like” or “as” but simple states that one thing is the same as another thing. In the sonnet we read “black wires grow on her head” this is a metaphor comparing the Mistress’s hair to wire.
Personification is a form of metaphor; it involves turning a non-human object into a human aspect e.g. “I have seen roses damasked, red and white (line 5) roses turn into a human attribute. 6. Our society promotes ideals of woman’s beauty that are as unrealistic as those that are mentioned in the poem, the ideal women in old days is not perhaps as the image female perfection in the Shakespearian error. 7. The speakers tone changes from humorous and jocular to serious, as he express his true feelings about his