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Analysis of Sonnet 5   Those hours that with gentle impart did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell entrust play the tyrants to the very same, And that un sensible which fairly doth excel For never-resting age leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him at that place, Sap checkd with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, witness oersnowd and bareness everywhere Then were not summers distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beautys effect with beauty were bereft, Nor ir nor no remembrance what it was. But flowers distilld, though they with winter meet, Leese simply their coming into court 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 line 4 seems to mean that, but a paronomasia arises when read aloud allowing witch to be replaced. This is definitley an option when referring to Th ose hours, significant of cartridge clip, as seeing time as a witch. Shakespeare does not hold time in such high regard, and therefore we get a meagrely altered reading of line 4 and that unfair witch hastens your increase 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 vex vanished, beauty being overly-covered and barren everywhere. 9-12 At that time summer was remembered with 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.