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In 1990 Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen set the poem to a mixed chamber choir setting. 60 (1958) for tenor, 7 obbligato instruments (flute, clarinet, cor anglais, bassoon, French horn, timpani, harp) and strings. The sonnet was set to music by Benjamin Britten as the last song of his eight-song cycle Nocturne Op. In line 11, Edward Capell's emendation of the quarto's "their" to "thy" is now almost universally accepted. Edward Dowden has "darkly bright" as "illumined, though closed" he glosses the rest of the line "clearly directed in the darkness." Sidney Lee has the line "guided in the dark by the brightness of your shadow," while George Wyndham prefers "In the dark they heed that on which they are fixed." Stephen Booth notes the concentration of antithesis used to convey the impression of a speaker whose emotions have inverted his perception of the world.Įdmond Malone glosses "unrespected" as "unregarded." Line 4 has received a number of broadly similar interpretations. Gerald Massey notes an analogous poem in Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, 38. This is one of the poems omitted from the pirated edition of 1640. = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. The second and fourth lines have a final extrametrical syllable or feminine ending:Īnd darkly bright, are bright in dark directed. The first line of the couplet exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:Īll days are nights to see till I see thee, (43.13) It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, and is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line. English sonnets contain three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. Sonnet 43 is an English or Shakespeare sonnet.