 (47.14)


Lines two and four contain a final extrametrical syllable or "feminine ending".Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother, (47.4)


The sonnet thematically continues from the "verdict" delivered by the eye and heart in the previous sonnet.Kerrigan perceives an allusion to the story of Zeuxis and Parrhasius in the "painted banquet" of line 8.