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Ok so I have a project, and I have to find the figurative speech in this sonnet.
Its Edmund Spensers Sonnet 1 from Amoretti
Here it is:
Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might,
Shall handle you and hold in love's soft hands,
Like captives trembling at the victor's sight,
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look
And read the sorrows of my dying spright,
Written in tears in heart's close bleeding book.
And happy rhymes bathed in the sacred brook,
Of Helicon whence she derived is,
When ya behold that angel's blessed look,
My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss.
Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.
So far I could only find Simile, which would be "Shall handle you and hold in love's soft bands, Like captives trembling at the victor's sight"
Help please?
Thanks in Advance
Its Edmund Spensers Sonnet 1 from Amoretti
Here it is:
Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might,
Shall handle you and hold in love's soft hands,
Like captives trembling at the victor's sight,
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look
And read the sorrows of my dying spright,
Written in tears in heart's close bleeding book.
And happy rhymes bathed in the sacred brook,
Of Helicon whence she derived is,
When ya behold that angel's blessed look,
My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss.
Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.
So far I could only find Simile, which would be "Shall handle you and hold in love's soft bands, Like captives trembling at the victor's sight"
Help please?
Thanks in Advance