Shakespeare Sonnet Syntax

“Sonnet CXXX” is a spoof of the typical love sonnets written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. It ridicules the senseless depictions that poets gave their lovers whereas in comparison the speaker in “Sonnet CXXX,” illustrates his mistress with honest comments. These remarks declare her “true” character and show the speaker’s absolute and total adoration for her because of it. As the poem opens, in the first quatrain, we are introduced to the narrator’s, “I”, “mistress.” This term however, is not meant with negative connotation as one whom has extramarital sexual relations, but as a term of endearment meaning “my love” or “my darling.” The speaker, saying that his mistress’ eyes are “nothing like the sun” and that her lips are not as red as