Shakespeare's Sonnets

Sonnet 29

Shakespeare breaks from traditional Elizabethan sonnet form by repeating the same rhyming word in the first quatrain and the third quatrain. What effect does this repetition have?

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I think the third quatrain addresses the problem posed by the speaker in the first quatrain. The third quatrain offers a solution to the speaker's problem: he remembers that someone somewhere really loves him and this love is enough to bring him out of his melancholy.

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