Scott,
I think I’d treat “Yet…thee” as a main clause as well, not as
adverbial. Yet acts as a coordinating conjunction and so also gets used
sentence-initially to set up a contrast with a preceding thought. There’s a
single complex adverbial clause comprising the first two quatrains. The third
quatrain begins with the main clause of that sentence and is itself a
coordinate clause with “and.” The third quatrain is set off by a semi-colon
because of the preceding serial commas. The closing couplet is also set off
with a semi-colon, perhaps because of the initial “for” and the close logical
link between it and three quatrains. A sonnet in one sentence. Not many poets
have pulled this off so well.
Of course, the semicolons are the interpretation of an editor,
unidentified. In the 1609 facsimile (http://ia311343.us.archive.org/3/items/shakespearessonn00shakrich/shakespearessonn00shakrich.pdf),
all lines but the last end in commas, although the punctuation at the end of
the first quatrain is ambiguous. I can’t make out on the screen whether it was
meant to be a comma or a period, but I suspect the former.
Herb
From: Assembly for the
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Subject: Sonnet grammar analysis help
List, Please let me know if you think I'm basically correct with
my analysis or where I might be more correct or clear. Adverb clause in italics Independent clauses in bold participial phrases in < > with participle underlined noun clauses in [ ] adjective or relative clauses in { } When in
disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes Does this
seem right? Any comments? Thanks, Scott Woods |
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