Th’Expense of Spirit is part of a collection. The sonnet is an Elizabethan sonnet. it consists of three quatrains and a couplet.

 Just reading the title the reader understands the theme of sonnet: the waste of sperm. In the first quatrain Shakespeare describes lust with some negative adjectives:perjured, murd’rous, bloody, full of blame, savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust because lust represents waste of life seed.  In addition, the quatrain starts with the thesis: the expense of spirit in a waste of shame is  lust in action. The repetition of action  (line 2) focuses the reader’s  attention on  the sexual intercourse. The rime scheme is alternate rime (ABAB) to underline the idea of falsity.

 In the second quatrains syntactical deviation underlines sooner (in a little time), the happiness of lust is so short that immediately people hate it, but the human being is subject to the power of lust. Lust is in the mind because the word mad expresses the effectof orgasm asa mental experience.

In the last quatrain  the effect of lust is described before, during and after the sexual intercourse. All expressions used to talk about the effect are  magnified to underline lust and its enewrgy.

 The couplet is the conclusion synthesizes  the previous argumentations. Heaven refers to desire, on  the contrary hell refers to lust. Hell is in a key position at the end of the sonnet. 

Th’Expense of Spirit is part of a collection. The sonnet follows  the structure of Elizabethan sonnet which is organized into three quatrains and a rhyming couplet.

 Just reading the title the reader understands the theme of sonnet is the waste of sperm. In the first quatrain Shakespeare describes lust with some negative adjectives: perjured, murd’rous, bloody, full of blame, savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust because lust represents waste of life's seed. In addition in the adjectives you can see the use of the harsh sound "r". The quatrain starts with the thesis: the expense of spirit in a waste of shame is lust in action. The repetition of word action  (line 2) focuses the reader’s  attention on  the sexual intercourse. The rhyme scheme is alternate (ABAB) to underline the idea of falsity.

 In the second quatrain syntactical deviation underlines sooner (in a little time), lust takes happiness but it is so short and immediately people hate it, but human beings are subjects to the power of lust. Lust takes place in the mind, indeed the word mad expresses the effect of orgasm is only a mental experience.

In the last quatrain Shakespeare describes the human opinion about lust, indeed it changes before, during and after the sexual intercourse. All expressions used to talk about the effect are magnified to underline lust and its energy.

 The couplet is the conclusion and it synthesizes the previous argumentations. Heaven refers to desire of lust, on the contrary hell refers to the consequence of lust. Hell is in a key position, it is put at the end because when you get lust it seems only the Hell.