Sonnets
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- If ever two were one, then surely we.
- She believes that she and her husband are meant for one another. They are two people that become one when together. It shoes intense emotion and heartfelt feelings. It conveys to the audience exactly how much she loves her husband. Love is a prominent theme throughout the poem, and this covers how binding it can be when the right people meet.
- Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
- She tells the reader to compare her relationship to other women and their marriages and find a better one. Her point is, there is no better marriage than the one that she's in. There's no love and companionship stronger than the one she's apart of. This feeds back to the intense emotion covered previously. It gets thicker, and heavier going on, which tastefully builds on the poem and theme. She lets the reader know what a real, strong romantic bond really feels like.
- Anne maintains a confident tone throughout the poem. At one point she tells the reader to compare her to other women and their husbands, "if they can." She's confident and a bit boastful about her true love. It carried on the intensely loving theme of the poem, as she uses exaggeratory language throughout to show appreciation for her marriage.
- The turn in line 8 switches up to talk about how colossal her husband's love for her is. Up to this point, Anne talked about how much she loved her husband, and how she's the happiest woman there can be. She also stated how her love for him overwhelms "all of the riches that the East doth hold." However, she takes a turn to state how her husband's love can't be compensated or repaid, because it's above and beyond. She loves her husband more than anything that can be, but her husband's love exceeds that far beyond hers, in her words. It shows a strong and intense love dynamic between the two, and that heavy emotion gets passed on to the viewer.
- The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
- She prays the the heavens reward her husband what she couldn't ever repay him. She believes her husband went so far out of his way for her, that only God could ever match the reward he deserves. It makes the reader wonder and imagine how they've both gone for each other. It can also be interpreted as them both being able to prosper together in heaven. The greatest award could be having peace with your soulmate with no obstacles or worries.
- Theme:When a companionship is true and amicable, two people can become one, and proper together in life and death.
- That when we live no more, we may live ever.
- After everything is said and done, no life is indefinite. Anne wants to prosper together with her husband beyond the grave. Given previous context, that means together in heaven. It builds the theme of Intense emotion and amicable love. It communicates that it's a tight bond that can't be broken, even in death. They both lived as one, and will pass as one.
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