Shakespeare's Sonnets
Which literary device has Edmund Spenser used in these lines from Sonnet 9?
Which literary device has Edmund Spenser used in these lines from Sonnet 9?
Long-while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which lighten my dark sprite,
Yet find I nought on earth to which I dare
Resemble th'image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun: for they do shine by night
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