Sonnet 73

The Architecture of Sonnet and Song

Let’s begin by stipulating that Ira Gershwin is not William Shakespeare. However, despite the gulf that separates their talents, they share some writing techniques that are useful tools for aspiring writers. For example, Shakespeare’s sonnet, That Time of Year, and Gershwin’s song, They Can’t Take That Away from Me*, are variations on a common template,
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Plagiarizing Himself

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Shakespeare often reused images and metaphors, stealing from himself. The simile in Friar Lawrence’s musing from Romeo and Juliet,

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.

is echoed in the metaphor of the third quatrain of Sonnet 73.

In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold

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That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.Metaphor
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
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Sonnet 73

The Architecture of Sonnet and Song

Plagiarizing Himself

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

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