MY MISTRESS’ EYES.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,—
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

The title creates an alliteration with the consonant “M”. it mean that the lady to control somebody eyes.

Considering the lay-out the sonnet is arrange to three quatrain and one couplet indeed it follows the Elizabethan’s model.

The first quatrain is an comparison. Introduction one where the speaking voice introduce a comparison and she is a loser in this comparison because coral is more red then her lips or her eyes are nothing like the sun.

In the second quatrain the poet repeat the same comparison and again once more this mistress is the looser because her cheeks are less beautiful damasked roses and he also adds the perfumes are much better than her breath.

The third quatrain since to introduce something different because beside what the poet is telling the reader something different from the privies situation. In the end of the third quatrain the speaking voice confesses he has never seen all of beauty but his mistress.

Shakespeare it will show a picture of the woman different from that typical of the Middle Ages, and he revolutionized the canons of courtly love . he understand that his love is mistress all the same even f she does not conform to the traditional standards of beauty and poetry. He says that his earl listening to is lover speak even if perfectly aware that music is much more pleasantly to listen to.

The poet that generally illustrated the difficult aspects of the speaker are here meant to anticipate the conclusion that is express interline couplet so that they also respond to a climatic effect: the one of the rhyme couplet why the poet loves his lady all the same even if she is not the perfectly presentation of the conventional lady of courtly love poetry.

Shakespeare choice is meant to be the parody of the conventional of courtly love poetry.