Drafting and redrafting

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. 

The sonnet is arranged in three quatrains and a couplet like Elizabethan sonnet. The sonnet' s theme is waste of sperm, anticiped by the title "Th'Expense of Spirit". 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. The writer with the repetition of word action wants focuses the reader' s attention on  the sexual intercourse and the rhyme abab expresses the effect of orgasm. In the second quatrain, the lust is describes as short indeed people hate lust but the human' s mind is subject to lust. in the last quatrain  the writer describes the effect of lust before, after and during the sexual intercourse . All expressions used to talk about the effect are  magnified to underline lust and its energy.

In a couplet, the writer takes up the theme of the sonnet and he underlines the contrast between heaven (desire) and hell(lust), Hell is in a key position at the end of the sonnet.