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n For the first time one sees Time in other than a destructive capacity–in its cyclical change of seasons, some Time does “make glad” with blooming sweets. In the second quatrain, the lover grants to Time its own will: “And do whate’er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,” acknowledging priorly that in its fleet passage Time does “Make glad and sorry seasons. Each line offers a different image of Time at work: on the lion, the earth, the tiger, the phoenix-bird. Indeed, he familiarly addresses Time as “thou” as he commands it harshly to “blunt, n “make the earth devour, n “pluck,” and “burn.” Not only are the verbs “blunt,n npluck,” and “burn” linked by assonance, but also by their plosive initial consonants, so that the Lover’s orders sound off Time’s destructiveness as well. Conceding to Time its wrongs, the lover at first appears to encourage Time to satisfy its insatiable appetite. The sonnet, which derived from the Italian word sonetto, meaning a little sound or song,' is 'a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries,' says most commonand simplesttype is known as the English or Shakespearean sonnet, but there are several other types. With the epithet “devouring” he addresses a greedy, ravenous hunger, a Time that is wastefully destructive. A sonnet is a one-stanza, 14-line poem, written in iambic pentameter. But inconstant also suggests capricious, and the lover finds time more grave than whimsical in its alterations. As the lover apostrophizes Time, one might expect him to address “old Time” as inconstant, for such an epithet implies time’s changeability. In his Sonnet 19, Shakespeare presents the timeless theme of Time’s mutability.