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Analysis of Sonnet 5   Those hours that with gentle work did frame The pleasing gaze where e actually eye doth dwell Will play the tyrants to the very same, And that unfair which fairly doth excel For never-resting condemnation leads summertime on To fearsome winter and confounds him there, Sap checkd with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty oersnowd and b areness all over Then were not summers di cool offation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beautys effect with beauty were bereft, Nor ir nor no monument what it was. But flowers distilld, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show their substance still lives sweet.     This sonnet is fairly easy to read and understand, but there are a few subtle ways Shakespeare makes it more interesting. First, the which in draw and quarter 4 seems to mean that, but a pun arises when read out loud allowing witch to be replaced. This is definitley an option when referring to Those hours, significant of time, as seeing time as a witch. Shakespeare does not hold time in much(prenominal) high regard, and therefore we get a slightly altered rendition of line 4 and that unfair witch hastens your increasing age by fair means. In this reading, time is both fair and unfair, much recieved as a child getting his deserved punishment. 5-6 Never-resting time always forces summer into winter, where summer is unhappily detained 7-8 Where,the sap is encroached with frost, and the leaves of the tree have vanished, beauty organism overly-covered and barren everywhere. 9-12 At that time summer was remembered through and through perfumes, (but) beautys effect the scent was subsided through the perfumes the scent is there, but the aesthetics are gone, and there was no remembrance what it really was.