This sonnet follows the rules of the Elizabethan model: it is organised into three quatrain and a rhyming couplet. The tile is part of the first line of the sonnet, this makes the reader understand the sonnet belongs to a collection. This sonnet us addressed to a "dark lady" so Shakespeare is not going to follow the typical convention of courtly love poetry but he is making it a parody, because usually poetry only underlines characteristics of angelic women. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This sonnet starts with a simile: "my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun". This means that sun shines much more than his lady. Shakespeare is going to make an exaggerated comparison. In this sonnet he presents a different kind of woman. The poet keeps some of the usually convention of the sonnet but on the other side he takes distance from typical convention in which usually the Elizabethan sonnet describes the woman. For instance he talks about eyes, hair, way of walking, but he transforms them. Woman in this sonnet is someone you can meet in everyday life, she is a realistic person, not an angel. Besides creating the figure of the woman only using words, S. uses the language of sense impression: he appeals to sight, hearing and smell, in this way the reader can feel the woman closer. Sight is focused in the first stanza: "coral is far more red than her lips red", this means her lips have not a bright red colour. After that the poet focused on hr skin. In courtly love poetry poets always simile skin of the women to snow, because the angel-woman must have a pale skin. Shakespeare writes that the skin of his lady is not pale but "dun". Going on the poet describes her hair, if hair have to be wires, she has black wires. This symbolizes again that S. does not rule the convention, as a matter of fact the medieval woman must have blond hair and blue eyes. Moreover the poet says he has seen roses damasked(which are red and white) but he sees no roses on her cheeks. After that he describes an other sense of impression: smell. He says that lots of perfumes are more delight than his mistress' breath. At line 9 the reader can find a compliment: the poet writes he loves the way she speaks although he knows that music has a more pleasing sound. The medieval women's voices were described as songs, but S. says he knows his woman's voice is not a song but he loves her anyway. He adds he has never seen a goddess go, but when his mistress walks she treads on the ground. Shakespeare wants the reader to understand the woman he loves is absolutely not an angel, she is not perfect and to create this idea he uses the method of exaggeration. In the rhyming couplet he says that in spite of all the defects, he really loves her. Appearance is not the only important thing in a person.