 Comparing the same image to similar passages in "The Faerie Queene", Booth regards the image as symbolic of coldness and insufficiency.Sidney Lee suggests that the conceit of the poem inspired a passage in John Suckling's "Tragedy of Benneralt".Edmond Malone notes that the figure of line 3 appears also in "The Comedy of Errors"; Edward Dowden notes parallels to Sonnet 75.