"I find no peace" is a sonnet written by Thomas Wyatt and first published in 1557. Considering the title, the reader may understand that the author will talk about something personal. Indeed, the voice is in the first person.
The text is arrange into four stanzas, two of them are quatrains and the last two tercets, so the intelligent reader concluded it is a sonnet because it is made up of 14 lines and it follows the Petrarch model.
The speaking voice expresses an inner conflict and a psychological conflict, expressed through a list of oxymoron: indeed, the reader comes across a series of semantic oppositions that range from verbs to words. The choice wants to convey the struggle of someone who is looking for peace, serenity and tranquility. In a few words, he looks for a notional rest after all the fights he has had with so far. The reader also understands that the speaking voice, who speaks in the first person singular and seven time in the space of four lines. In addition, his climatic desperate mood resorts to hyperboles to make his feelings clear and evident: "I fly above the wind and I can not arise" (line 3). Exaggeration helps and adds too meaning and the reader totally perceives the speaking voice's inner situation and as a consequence feels involved and hopefully feel empathy for the subject.
In the second stanza the writer focused on the subject of love, which influenced him brutally. The repetition of "nor" in lines 5 and 7 underlines that his feeling do not let him doing anything. He feels like a prisoner, can not living or dying, as he desires. Also, the reader finds the repetition of the object pronoun "me" (lines 5,6,7) which stressed the inner situation of the poet: suffering and being passive, he is unable to exit from this situation, intoxicated by love. The reader can also notice the presence of the final 'th' in the following words: looseth, locketh, holdeth, letteth, giveth, that was used in the literal language to make the third person singular-form of verbs.
The third stanza is composed by 3 lines and based on a contradiction for every line, underlining the conflicting emotions of the poet and his extreme inner tension. However, the reader must pay attention on line 11: "I love another and thus I hate myself". The poet hates himself as a consequence of loving his woman. He "finds no peace" because this have been destroyed during the conflict against himself in order not to love his woman.
Concluding, the last tercets presents the poet in an hopeless mood. He has been resigning himself to his destiny, rejoicing in this struggle.