Ren 1 Worlds

Sonnet 135, lines 1-2 (isocolon and excess)

Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will / And Will to boot, and Will in overplus

Sonnet 135 innuendo

Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, / Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?

Sonnet 135 final line all in one

Think all but one, and in me that one Will

Cavendish poem Of Many Worlds in This World, boxes, smaller, anadiplosis

Just like as in a Nest of Boxes round, / Degrees of Sizes in each Box are found, / So in this world may many others be, / Thinner and less, and less still by degree

Cavendish poem Of Many Worlds in this World, 2p, senses

Although they are not subject to our sense / A world may be no bigger than two-pence

Cavendish poem Of Many Worlds in This World, Ladies, small, worlds and ears, alliteration

And if thus small then Ladies may well wear / A world of worlds as pendents in each ear

Herbert Heaven, part, whole, holy, imperative, book

What leaves are they? impart the matter wholly. / Echo. Holy

Herbert, Heaven, half rhyme, bible, our own voice, bliss

Are holy leaves the Echo then of bliss? / Echo. Yes.

Herbert, Heaven, final line, triplet, internal rhyme, true echo rhyme, eternity

Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever? / Echo. Ever.

Herbert the Collar, free road, poetry, wind, store

My lines and life are free; free as the road, / Loose as the wind, as large as store.

Herbert the Collar, final lines, wild and angry, words, half rhyme, mishearing

But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild / At every word, / Me thoughts I heard one voice calling, Child / And I repli’d, My Lord.

Richard Strier, Bondage Herbert. ‘I will abroad’ claustrophobia movement

a decision to move from inside to outside, to burst out from claustrophobia

Richard Strier, Bondage Herbert, general comment on sonnet and constraint

Why would anyone choose to write in as constrained a form as a sonnet (paraphrased)

Richard Strier, Herbert and Bondage, note on meanings of collar

the speaker’s fit of ‘choler’ […] at feeling as if he is wearing a donkey or slave’s collar only serves to remind him […] of a caller

Petrarch sonnet 175 on knots

a knot so dear / which Love’s own hand so firmly fastened here