The task asked us to analyse  sonnet 129 by Shakespeare. The text is organized into three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet.

Therefore the sonnet displays the classical English structure of sonnets.

First of all I will consider the title. As the reader canunderstand, the title is taken from the first line of the sonnet. As a consequence, we can understand that the sonnet is part of a collection by Shakespeare.

The first stanza is consists ofa long series of adjectives that create a negative climax. The sound device tries to convey the hearing effect of the word “lust”, a feeling of strong sexual desire for someone. As a consequence the reader understands the first stanza tells about someone's feelings just before the consummation of the sexual intercourse.

As for the second stanza, it is about the feeling after the sexual consummation. The stanza starts with a statement  summing  up the concept expressed in the stanza. It says that the consummation is highly desired by everyone and enjoyed on the very moment of the intercourse but it is soon disliked. The poet used the word “hunted” generally used to refer to the animalsworld.

In the third stanza the poet explains lust is mad in every phase: in pursuit, in possession or in memory.  In all three cases it causes great sorrow all the same.

In conclusion, the final rhyming couplet says that even if all human beings have experienced that on more occasions, they haven’t learnt how to manage with such feeling.When someion longs for something, he or she is more likely not to care about anything else. It follows that human beings because of their passions are more likely to exchange what might turn into hell for  heaven.