'I find no peace' is a poetry written by Thomas Wyatt, and published in 1557. He introduced the sonnet in England with Henry Howard (earl of Surrey) in the period of Reinaissance, the golden age of poetry. Wyatt imitated Petrarch (the most important model of Reinaissance literature in Italy); indeed this poetry is a sort of translation of 'Pace non trovo' (Petrarch).
Analysing the title you can see that the poet uses the first person singular, so the reader understand that he in the poetry is speaking about something personal. It is write in the present simple, so is something always true (for the poet). Considering the lay out, you can see that the poem presents the classical structure of Italian sonnet (two quatrains and two triples). The metric scheme is ABBA ABBA CDD CDD, the reader seeing this, understand that there is a separation of two themes. In the first stanza there is a repetition of the subject personal pronoun 'I', (seven times) to focus on it the attention of the reader. The speaking's voice expresses an inner conflict expressed though a list of oxymorons; for example peace/war;burn/freeze, etc.
Indeed the reader come across a series of semantic opposition that range from words to verbs. The choice wants to convey the struggle of someone who is looking for peace (serenity and tranquility). In a few words he looks for an emotional rest after all the fights. In addition his climatic desperate mood resorts to hyperbole to make his feels clear and evident "I fly above the wind", "I can not arise' (line 3). The exaggeration helps and adds meaning and the reader totally perceives the speaking voice's inner situation and as a consequence feels involved and hopefully emphaty for the subject.
The second stanza presents in all his verses alliterations of the sound 'eth' (an archaism); the first verse 'That loose the nor locked' expresses what who speaks said in the previous lines. The narrator seems to be having a struggle not with the world or anyone else but within himself. It seems to me as he is at war or has a conflict within himself because of the love he feels for someone else. The narrator isn’t happy with himself, in fact he hates himself (line 11) but yet he still loves someone else. He neither wants to live or die but he has hope that he could possibly be with the person he claims to love. He wants to die because he isn’t with her but it seems to me as if she may not even love him back. I think his lover may not love him back because in lines 7-8 he says “Love does not destroy me, and does not loose me, wishes me not to live, but does not remove my bar”. He states that love wishes him not to live; when the narrator goes on to say “but does not remove my bar” I think that means that although love doesn’t wish him to live and doesn’t remove his bar because love wants him to suffer.