I FIND NO PEACE
'I find no peace' is a sonnet by Thomas Wyatt, earl of Surrey, which imitated Petrarch, indeed the poem is a translation of his "pace non trovo".
Following the Petrarchan model the text is organized in four stanzas: a octave (two quatrains) and a sestet (two tercets).
As you can understand by the use of the pronoun "I" since from the title, the sonnet is about something personal.
The personal pronoun 'I' is repeated seven times, to focus on it the attention of the reader. The speaking's voice expresses a conflict throught a list of oxymorons. Indeed the reader comes across a series of semantic opposition that range from the words to verbs. 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).
Exaggeration helps and adds to meaning and the reader totally perceives the speaking voice's inner situation and, as a conseguence, feels involved and hopfully feels empathy for the subject.

In the second stanza the poet repeats three times the pronoun "me" which underlines what the poet feels: he is suffering and being passive. The repetition of "nor" in lines 5 and 7 underlines that his feeling do not let him doing anything; he feels like a prisoner.

In the last tercets the poet uses some oxymorons to stess his mood: "I derish to perish", "I ask the health", "I feed me in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain". He loves a woman but this love makes him sad and makes him hate himself.

In conclusion the text, especially the first and the last stanza, is based on the oxymoron which shows the instability of the poet and his suffering.