What are some of the figures of speech in the poem sonnet 29?
SONNET 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. In disgrace with fortune suggest a passing calamitous time of trial and hardship, where fair weathered friend up and depart and one is left solemn and outcast. Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you weep alone. The lamentations of the misfortuned distract the better graced from their elated lives, it is a sonnet of sorrow and woeful despair where none
