...unsurprisingly, is as great a master of meter as of other elements in the poetic medium. His Sonnet 60 begins: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. The expectation is often syllables to a line, with five beats...

...ripe, /And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; / And thereby hangs a tale. William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end. William Shakespeare No matter what a man does, no matter how successful he seems to be in any field,...

...struck twelve when I did send the nurse In half an hour she promised to return. (Romeo and Juliet) Like the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. (Sonnet 60) He can be guilty of a flagrant anachronism, in horology as in other matters: Peace! Count...

...1986), in ascribing authority to the 1609 order. educated Elizabethan reader would have recognized, Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...end, Each changing place with that which goes before; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. (Sonnet 60, 1-4) is a version of But looke As every wave dryves...

...Yet do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. Sonnet 19 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith...

...II, v, v, 42-60). Time is a mysterious continuum within which all nature is contained and limited: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. (60) 'swift-footed Time' (19), 'his swift foot' (65), Time's...

...literature. Shakespeare's sonnet 60 is in these respects the classic statement of Renaissance Ovidianism: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith...

...this one which vividly conveys a sense of the restless movement of time: Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their...end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forward do contend. The irreversibility of time does not only exist for living...

...the couplet is aware of how fragile its oplimism is. 60 Like as the waves make towards the pe66led shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes hefore, lu sequem toil all forwards do comend. Nativity, once in the main of light, , Crawls to maturity,...

...do our MINUTES hasten to their end' - a false apposition and an energy rundown. The moment one says: 'Like as the waves make TOWARDS THE PEBBLED SHORE, So do our minutes HASTEN TO THEIR END', the meaning becomes clear and the poem starts to move. Giving the metaphor its life is the secret of...