...defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age. When sometime lofty towers I see down rased, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage. When I have seen the hungry Ocean gain 5 Advantage on the tyngdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store...

...defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen...kingdom of the shore And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store ... In the midst of this black and sinister...

...defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen...kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of...

...defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen...itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose...

...buried age, When sometime-lofty towers I see down razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; 5 When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...store; When I have seen such interchange of state, 10 Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate: That time will come and...

...buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down rased, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; 4 When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; 8 When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught...

...And thejtrm soil win of the wat'ry main. lncreasing store with loss, and loss with store, When / haue seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay. Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate. in the Sonnets we can also find Theme Predications, both of an Unmarked Theme, "my love"...

...as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. 10552 Sonnet 64 1 174 A Child's Garden of Verses 'Bed in Summer' In winter I get up 10553 Sonnet 73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang...

...werden kann. wird. Eine auffällige Form der Alternative findet man in Wortspielen, wie Shakespeares When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; (Sonnet 64, 9-10) wo eine Bedeutungsverschiebung von »state« als »condition« zu »state« als »kingdom«...

...defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen...itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. (64) Time in the Sonnets is a devourer, a thief,...