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Sonnet 30 begins with: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought." Look at the repeated words in each line of the third quatrain: "Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,/ And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er,/ The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan

Demonstrates how he is reliving his past woes

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Give a reference to the context

The speaker of “Sonnet 30” has a lot of sorrow, regret, and disappointment. The context of the poem's first twelve lines generally involves the speaker's griefs in detail, moving from frustrated ambition to grief over the deaths of "precious...

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sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare

In the final two lines of 'Sonnet 30' the speaker transitions into the turn, or volta. This is seen through a direct address to a “dear friend,” the Fair Youth. Whenever he is as depressed as he described in the previous lines, he thinks of the...

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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

by William Shakespeare

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The Mysterious Identity of the 'Fair Youth'

Patrick Stewart reading Sonnet 30 ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’

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